He could not read English, but understood pictorial representations.

On the boat we gave the cans to the steward, to be opened when we ordered.

The pictures were especially adapted to this youth as he read no language whatever, including his own.

On one occasion a quantity of devilled turkey was put up in cans and sent to the Amoor, and the label was beautified with a picture of His Satanic Majesty holding a turkey on the end of a fork.

The natives supposed that the devil was in the cans and refused to touch them.