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Men naturally fall into the habit of applying the terms of their own art on occasions when they appear to be even ludicrous. To-day, as the sailor attendants were setting out the table for dinner, I heard one of them desire another to place one of the dishes a fathom or two higher up the table ; and once at an Irish banquet I heard a carpenter, who was one of the waiters, ask a guest to whom he was handing a dish of salmon cutlets skewered on arbutus wood, to be pleased to take one of them by the timber. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. When I rose this morning we were passing the island of Pantellaria, which lies off the African coast, to the east of Cape Bon. This island is one of the two (Grozo is the other) which claim to have been once the home of Ulysses, where for seven long years " Calypso in her caves constrained his stay With sweet, reluctant, amorous delay." The wavy outline of its dark blue mountains impressed usfavourably with a sense of its beauty, but long wandering must have had its usual effect in dissipating his home- thoughts beforegthe sage of profane history could have been lulled, either by female charms or the beauty of nature, into forgetfulness of Penelope, and Telemachus, and his people and kingdom. The island has, however, no charms for a large class of its present inhabitants for they are convicts sent there from Naples. We were near enough to see distinctly the white houses of the town and a large white building in the centre, which is probably either the government house, or a prison, or both. Off Pantellaria, we saw a Maltese fishing boat, with two milk-white sails, at least 130 miles from its home. This little speronara, of twenty tons or less, but which was still larger than the vessel that bore Ulysses, skimmed along the sea like a nautilu...
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Men naturally fall into the habit of applying the terms of their own art on occasions when they appear to be even ludicrous. To-day, as the sailor attendants were setting out the table for dinner, I heard one of them desire another to place one of the dishes a fathom or two higher up the table ; and once at an Irish banquet I heard a carpenter, who was one of the waiters, ask a guest to whom he was handing a dish of salmon cutlets skewered on arbutus wood, to be pleased to take one of them by the timber. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. When I rose this morning we were passing the island of Pantellaria, which lies off the African coast, to the east of Cape Bon. This island is one of the two (Grozo is the other) which claim to have been once the home of Ulysses, where for seven long years " Calypso in her caves constrained his stay With sweet, reluctant, amorous delay." The wavy outline of its dark blue mountains impressed usfavourably with a sense of its beauty, but long wandering must have had its usual effect in dissipating his home- thoughts beforegthe sage of profane history could have been lulled, either by female charms or the beauty of nature, into forgetfulness of Penelope, and Telemachus, and his people and kingdom. The island has, however, no charms for a large class of its present inhabitants for they are convicts sent there from Naples. We were near enough to see distinctly the white houses of the town and a large white building in the centre, which is probably either the government house, or a prison, or both. Off Pantellaria, we saw a Maltese fishing boat, with two milk-white sails, at least 130 miles from its home. This little speronara, of twenty tons or less, but which wasstill larger than the vessel that bore Ulysses, skimmed along the sea like a nautilu...
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This is an OCR edition with typos.
Excerpt from book:
Men naturally fall into the habit of applying the terms of their own art on occasions when they appear to be even ludicrous. To-day, as the sailor attendants were setting out the table for dinner, I heard one of them desire ...