We chartered a little steamer and went out there.

Of course, the police boarded us and put us through a health examination, and inquired into our politics, before they would let us land.

The airs these little insect Governments put on are in the last degree ridiculous.

They even put a policeman on board of our boat to keep an eye on us as long as we were in the Capri dominions.
They thought we wanted to steal the grotto, I suppose.

It was worth stealing.