It is unknown in Africa, among the negroes--in America." "Don't tell me that," said the Captain; "a Yankee will fight with muskets and buck-shot, rather than sit still with an affront.

I should know Jonathan, I think." "Altogether unknown among the thousand tribes of India." "I'll be tamned, then!" said Captain MacTurk.

"Was I not in Tippoo's prison at Bangalore?
and, when the joyful day of our liberation came, did we not solemnize it with fourteen little affairs, whereof we had been laying the foundation in our house of captivity, as holy writ has it, and never went farther to settle them than the glacis of the fort?
By my soul, you would have thought there was a smart skirmish, the firing was so close; and did not I, Captain MacTurk, fight three of them myself, without moving my foot from the place I set it on ?" "And pray, sir, what might be the result of this Christian mode of giving thanks for your deliverance ?" demanded Mr.Touchwood.
"A small list of casualties, after all," said the Captain; "one killed on the spot, one died of his wounds--two wounded severely--three ditto slightly, and little Duncan Macphail reported missing.

We were out of practice, after such long confinement.

So you see how we manage matters in India, my dear friend." "You are to understand," replied Touchwood, "that I spoke only of the heathen natives, who, heathen as they are, live in the light of their own moral reason, and among whom ye shall therefore see better examples of practical morality than among such as yourselves; who, though calling yourselves Christians, have no more knowledge of the true acceptation and meaning of your religion, than if you had left your Christianity at the Cape of Good Hope, as they say of you, and forgot to take it up when you come back again." "Py Cot! and I can tell you, sir," said the Captain, elevating at once his voice and his nostrils, and snuffing the air with a truculent and indignant visage, "that I will not permit you or any man to throw any such scandal on my character .-- I thank Cot, I can bring good witness that I am as good a Christian as another, for a poor sinner, as the best of us are; and I am ready to justify my religion with my sword--Cot tamn!--Compare my own self with a parcel of black heathen bodies and natives, that were never in the inner side of a kirk whilst they lived, but go about worshipping stocks and stones, and swinging themselves upon bamboos, like peasts, as they are!" An indignant growling in his throat, which sounded like the acquiescence of his inward man in the indignant proposition which his external organs thus expressed, concluded this haughty speech, which, however, made not the least impression on Touchwood, who cared as little for angry tones and looks as he did for fine speeches.