Have you ever been in England ?" "Never.

As I have told you, I was born in Java, and was educated in Hongkong at an English School.

But a fancy of this sort is not very uncommon.

I myself once met a perfect stranger who bore so strong a resemblance to an old friend, that I spoke to him as such, and only found out from his voice that I was mistaken." The captain of the steamer came on deck at that moment and cut short the conversation.
"Are you engaged, Van der Kemp ?" he asked.
"No--I am at your service." "Come below then, I want to have a talk with you." Thus left alone, and overhearing a loud burst of laughter at the fore part of the steamer, Nigel went forward to see what was going on.

He found a group of sailors round his comrade Moses, apparently engaged in good-natured "chaff." "Come, now, blackey," said one; "be a good fellow for once in your life an' tell us what makes your master live on a desert island like Robinson Crusoe, an' go about the ocean in a canoe." "Look 'ere now, whitey," returned Moses, "what you take me for ?" "A nigger, of course." "Ob course, an' you're right for once, which is sitch an unusual t'ing dat I 'dvise you go an' ax de cappen to make a note ob it in de log.