Even had he been minded to alight, it presently appeared there would be difficulty as to the refreshment offered.
"Beer!" cried the Glasgow voice.

"No such a thing; I tell you there's only eight bottles in the club! Here's the first time I've seen British colours in this port! and the man that sails under them has got to drink that beer." The proposal struck the public mind as fair, though far from cheering; for some time back, indeed, the very name of beer had been a sound of sorrow in the club, and the evenings had passed in dolorous computation.
"Here is Havens," said one, as if welcoming a fresh topic.

"What do you think of her, Havens ?" "I don't think," replied Havens, a tall, bland, cool-looking, leisurely Englishman, attired in spotless duck, and deliberately dealing with a cigarette.

"I may say I know.

She's consigned to me from Auckland by Donald & Edenborough.