For myself, the wild incongruity of this foreign tongue from lips which I had heard utter such fluent and flute-like English swallowed up all other wonder.
After a pause, seeing the marvelling looks of his audience, the witness quietly explained-- "You wonder at this; but I am Greek, and cannot master your hard names.

I joined the ship at Colombo as the captain was short of hands.

I was wrecked in a Dutch vessel belonging to Dordrecht, off Java, and worked my passage to Ceylon, seeking employment.

It is not, therefore, extraordinary that I am so ignorant, and my mouth cannot pronounce your English language, but show me your list of ships and I will point her out to you." There was a rustling of papers, and a list of East Indiamen was handed up to him: he hastily ran his finger over the pages.

Suddenly his face lighted up.
"Ah! this is she!--this is the ship that was wrecked last night!" The coroner took the paper and slowly read out--"The _James and Elizabeth_, of Bristol.