Related article: briates also keeps a special eye upon amateur steersmen. Many pages have been written by angling enthusiasts anent the catching of their first salmon. This renders it unnecessary for me to occupy time and space in detailing how I hauled from the deep my first mackerel, and what ray feelings were in connection therewith. Anyone being curious upon the subject can take any salmon-fishing record sufficiently graphic for the purpose, and by substituting mackerel for salmon can obtain the desired informa- tion. I will only remark, in indica- tion of the life and death struggle it was, that the fish displayed so much reluctance to be caught, and so much energetic volatility on arriving on board that nothing less than a knock on the head with a belay ing-pin — or a rolling- pin, I don't know which— was suf- ficient to subdue its spirits and secure peace and quiet in the boat. Other catches followed, and after about two hours' sport we made for home with keen appetites for a fish breakfast. And here, I would suggest, that if you want to get the full and true flavour of a mackerel and an unparalleled zest for its consumption, hook him yourself, as I did, in the early morning in his native lair, and cook and eat him within an hour or so of his drawing his last breath. Then he will be an en- during memory and you will ever afterwards think of him with tenderness and respect. N.B. — I believe this applies to most fish so caught and treated. A visit ashore for letters, &c., followed by a brief spell of read- ing, writing and thinking, as usual under the deck awning, Generic Galantamine filled up the time till lunch, after which the Admiral and myself embarked once more in the cutter for a coast trip, which ' enabled one to still further appreciate the value to ships of one of the finest harbours in the kingdom and also the beauty of its surroundings. Outside the harbour, I was witness of a little incident which testified how worthily a member of the animal creation could justify its name and reputation. A cormorant sud- denly dived Galantamine Online down into the deep and commandeered for tea a fsur sized pollack, with which it flew to an adjacent rock. Then ensued a series of desperate efforts on the part of the captor to dispose of its meal in a single bolt. The fish, having no curiosity apparently to view its appropriator's interior, wriggled Purchase Galantamine Online and Order Galantamine swelled itself out to- its fullest dimensions. Hence a 1900.] NOTES OF A YACHTING CRUISE BY A LANDSMAN. 345 block ensued, and the situation became dramatic. As, with breath- less interest, I watched the issue, in the favourable position of a bystander seeing most of the game, it looked even betting as to whether the fish would be bolted or the bird choked. The cormorant gulped and gurgled, as the pollack, head downwards, and half in and half out of its throat, fought hard for dear life. But the issue was not long in doubt, and one more prodigious effort on the part of the bird resulted in the ill- Cheap Galantamine fated pollack going, in its entirety, lock, stock, and barrel, to its long home by a certain and direct route. At this the victor abso- lutely '* chortled in his joy," Order Galantamine Online and spreading his wings, rose upwards with a supremely self-satisfied air, which found expression in a series of jubilant exclamations indica- tive of a digestive triumph. Thus was brought home to me the full significance of the term — not in- frequently applied to members of my own species — " a human cor- morant." It was thought fitting that a record of the transaction should be made in the deck-cabin log-book. This, by the way, is not the log-book proper, so that historical accuracy is not, with respect to entries in it, absolutely essential. Hence the introduction, in the following poetic rendering of the incident, of an underlying motive, the existence of which, al- though extremely probable, was not absolutely proved, but which, as Mr. Gilbert would say, gives ** verisimilitude" to what might otherwise be "a bald and uncon- vincing narrative." N.B. — A poet, like an angler, is nothing if not truthful. The record stands Purchase Galantamine thus : A pollack, when out on the spree, Said, <' I am the kin|[ of the sea ! " But a cormorant nigh Said, •• Oh, that's all my eye I " And bolted him whole for his tea. Which I saw. On returning to the yacht, we were informed that at 7 p.m. a tug steamer was to be launched from Cox's yard, so, after a tea- refresher, we were out again in the Buy Galantamine Online cutter to witness the cere- mony. And an attractive and novel sight it was to a landsman. The ship, flagged from stem to stern, and with a good cargo of people on deck, was duly chris- tened in the orthodox fashion, and at the right moment, amid the cheers of all around, glided off the stocks into the water, with a dignified grace that was very pretty to behold. After this and dinner, we all felt that we had sufficiently excited ourselves for one day, and a com- placent feeling stole over me that I had not lived in vain, and, moreover, that I had ** earned a night's " — a good night's, too — " repose." Whilst I was thinking what a support and comfort, and how pre-eminently soothing such a reflection was, he-who-must-be- obeyed, otherwise the Admiral, incidentally remarked that we should start next morning for Plymouth at 4 a.m., and further observed, with, as I thought, a significant glance at me, that he should expect all aboard to be up and about at that hour. This was a bolt from the blue for which I was quite unprepared. How- ever, I cheerily replied •* Aye, aye, Buy Galantamine your honour," and was only pre- vented by sheer laziness from hitching my trousers up, in ac- cordance with nautical custom (on the stage) when acquiescence in anything has to be especially emphasised. At the Buy Cheap Galantamine same time, I had an innate conviction that nothing less than the wreck of the vessel would fetch me out of my berth at such an unearthly hour. The Admiral proceeded to say that my place would be **on the bridge," where I should have 346 BAILY S MAGAZINE. [November a good view of all that transpired in connection with taking a ship