to the "hear! hear!" of civilized men.

Other orators then followed, all of whom spoke with

great ease and fluency, and some in the most impassioned

strains, working themselves and their audience up to the

highest pitch of excitement, now shouting with frenzied

violence till their eyes glared from their sockets and the

veins of their foreheads swelled almost to bursting as

they spoke of war and chase, anon breaking into soft

modulated and pleasing tones while they dilated upon

the pleasures of peace and hospitality.