"There be land rats and water rats," according to Shakspeare.

Some of the latter dwelt in this bluff-bowed schooner and peered curiously from the crevices in her sides.
[Illustration: BREACH OF ETIQUETTE.] The majority of our visitors made their calls very brief.

After their departure, I went on shore with Mr.Hunter, an American resident of Petropavlovsk.

In every house I visited I was pressed to take _petnatzet copla_ (fifteen drops,) the universal name there for something stimulating.

The drops might be American whisky, French brandy, Dutch gin, or Russian vodka.