There were several of his Priests and Lawyers present, (as I conjectured by their habits) who were commanded to address themselves to me, and I spoke to them in as many Languages as I had the least smattering of, which were High and Low Dutch, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and Lingua Franca; but all to no purpose.

It’s absurd, topsy-turvy, arse-about-face. But shit, nonetheless, demands a reading, and vice versa.

The quarantinable diseases are yellow fever, cholera, typhus or ship fever, small-pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles and relapsing fever.

Whenever he saw the schapskas and lances he would be cautious; when these lances were pennoned with black and white, and when the schapskas and schabraques were edged with yellow, he would keep out of the way altogether.