a
more or less polyglot remainder without national classification.

His First Officer was a Scotch-American, the Second an Irish-American,
the Chief Engineer a plain unhyphenated American from Baltimore,
Maryland. The purser, Mr. Codge, was still an Englishman, although he
had lived in the United States since he was two years old,--a matter of
forty-seven years and three months, if we are to believe Mr. Codge,
who seemed rather proud of the fact that his father had neglected to
forswear allegiance to Queen Victoria, leaving it to his son to follow
his example in the case of King Edward the Seventh and of King George
the Fifth.

There were eighty-one first-cabin passengers, one hundred and nineteen
in the second cabin,--for the two had not been consolidated on the
Doraine as was the case with the harried trans-Atlantic liners,--and
approximately three hundred and fifty in the steerage. The first
and second cabin lists represented many races, South Americans
predominating.

The great republics in the lower half of the hemisphere were cut
off almost entirely from the Old World so far as general travel was
concerned. The people of Argentine, Brazil and Chili turned their eyes
from the east and looked to the north, where lay the hitherto ignored
and sometime hated continent whose middle usurped the word American. A
sea voyage in these parlous days meant but one thing to the people of
South America: a visit to an unsentimental land whose traditions, if any
were cherished at all, went back no farther than yesterday and were to
be succeeded by fresh ones tomorrow. At least, such was the belief of
the Latin who still dozed superciliously in the glory of his long-dead
ancestors. Not having Paris, or London, or Madrid, or Rome as the Mecca
of his dreams, his pilgrimage now carried him to the infidel realities
of the North,--to Washington, New York, New Orleans, Newport and
Atlantic City! He had the money for travel, so why stay at home? He had
the money to waste, so why not dissipate? He had the thirst for sin, so
why famish?

There were lovely women on board, and children with and without the
golden spoon; there were men whose names were known on both sides of
the Atlantic and whose reputations for integrity, sagacity, intellect,
and,--it must be confessed,--corruptness, (with the author's apology for
the inclusion); doughty but dogmatic university men who had penetrated
the wildernesses as naturalists, entomologists, minera