A little drunkenness does not damage great enterprises.

"I saw," said the witness Hobbs, the under-steward, before the Court of Peers,[3] "I saw in the cabin a great quantity of money.

The passengers appeared to me to be reading printed papers; they passed all the night drinking and eating.

I did nothing else but uncork bottles, and serve food." Next came the captain.

The magistrate asked Captain Crow: "Did you see the passengers drink ?"--Crow: "To excess; I never saw anything like it."[4] [3] Court of Peers, _Depositions of witnesses_, p.