Of uniforms and guns.

The Beagle plunged

Westward, upon the road that Drake had sailed;

But this new voyager, on a longer quest,

Sailed on a stranger sea; and, though I heard

His ringing laugh, he seemed to live apart

In his own mind, from all who moved around him.

I saw him while the Beagle basked at anchor

Under West Indian palms. He lounged there, tanned

With sun; tall, lankier in his cool white drill;