"Look at that gigantic American standing among the Brazilian soldiers who seem like pigmies by comparison," said the midshipman.
"It is Hercules," said the Professor.
"Or Goliath of Gath," said the midshipman. "Do you know him?"
"He came out in our ship," said Toney.
"If your captain carried many such giants on board, I wonder that he had a spare porker to hang at his masthead."
"Hercules seems to be on terms of intimacy with those black guards of the House of Braganza," said Toney.
"No punning now, if you please; we are on land," said the Professor.
"But on foreign land, where the points of our puns cannot be perceived by the natives," said Toney.
"Your apology is perfectly satisfactory," said the Professor.
"Let us see what Hercules is going to do," said Tom Seddon.