If he is, as I take for granted, busy in France just now, he will leave his mark behind.
The voyage, however, seemed likely to be a dull one; and to relieve the monotony, a wild-beast show was determined on, ere the weather grew too cold.

So one day all the new curiosities were brought on deck at noon; and if some great zoologist had been on board, he would have found materials in our show for more than one interesting lecture.

The doctor contributed an Alligator, some two feet six inches long; another officer, a curiously-marked Ant-eater--of a species unknown to me.

It was common, he said, in the Isthmus of Panama; and seemed the most foolish and helpless of beasts.

As no ants were procurable, it was fed on raw yolk of egg, which it contrived to suck in with its long tongue--not enough, however, to keep it alive during the voyage.
The chief engineer exhibited a live 'Tarantula,' or bird-catching spider, who was very safely barred into its box with strips of iron, as a bite from it is rather worse than that of an English adder.
We showed a Vulturine Parrot and a Kinkajou.