[3] Now Sir W. D. Geddes of the Aberdeen University.
[4] Pronounced “shees.”
[5] This story is not imagination, but truth.
[6] A kind of floury Scotch roll.
[7] Dulse is an edible seaweed much used in the North, and pepper dulse is a smaller seaweed with pleasant pungent flavour, that is eaten as a relish along with it.
[8] “How do all these vessels become derelicts, because I thought a ship was never deserted while she would float?”—“No. When a ship has rolled her masts over the side, or gets leaking badly, or has a heavy list, or from a thousand and one other causes gets dangerous, her crew are frequently only too ready to leave her. There are some notable cases, and only just within the last week or two the Bahama, a fine large steel sailing vessel on her first voyage, was deserted in the Atlantic, and was sighted afterwards in an apparently seaworthy condition. But there is to be an inquiry into her case, so I will say nothing more about her, except that she is not yet charted, and is knocking about without lights, without foghorn, without anything—in fact, a tremendous danger to navigation. Over and over again a crew has left a ship when another crew from the relieving vessel has stayed behind and brought the otherwise derelict safely into port. Many of these derelicts, I should tell you, are waterlogged timber ships; and it may interest you to learn, while I think of it, that one of the United States vessels engaged in sinking derelicts is the old Kearsarge, who fought and sunk the Alabama in the English Channel.”—Pall-Mall Gazette.
Typographical error corrected by the etext transcriber:
“your a thrifty lad."=> “you’re a thrifty lad.” {pg 218}