Toni would drink rapidly all the glasses offered.

The captain would refuse them, asking for clear coffee.
His sobriety was that of the ancient sailor,--the sobriety of Father Ulysses who used to mix wine with water in all his libations.

The divinities of the old sea did not love alcoholic drinks.

The white _Amphitrite_ and the Nereids only accepted on their altars the fruits of the earth, sacrifices of doves, libations of milk.

Perhaps because of this the seafaring men of the Mediterranean, following an hereditary tendency, looked upon intoxication as the vilest of degradations.