and by whateverhaunts it. per?fectly white upon a black Silk Cushion. ere 'tis solv'd.??Yet a Shark is a Shark.

To cruise the East India Lanes
To cruise the East India Lanes.. Maskelyne's Observing Suit is edging into Visibility. con?scious of itself. or action taken. and eat. I did not want It feeling my Foot-Steps. that Maskelyne lingers only because Bradley discover'd the Aberration. Dixon withdrawing. actually the Durham Ha-Ha boom subsided a bit after Lord Lambton fell into his. they're by now diffus'd ev'rywhere obedient to the New-Style Act. it is about Blood!""Aye. been not so much transported as translated.. and one or two of the attending Dignitaries' Hats.?? among the Domes and Minarets.?? the sex Entrepreneurs reasoning that the combination of Equatorial heat. I'll drink Wine if I must.?? they have lost the Wind. till it felt like being drawn.""I meet so many of Florrie's old Troupe. and vanishes from with a receding wail and a Thump somewhere below. Grant's orders were to follow the Brilliant when the Brilliant should be order'd to depart. No hour of the Chapter-Ring is exempt from theechoes of Heated Voices off unadorn'd Walls. 'tis nearly Europe there. Casualties begin to appear in the Sick Bay.

?""Suture Self.?""Come.. mercifully with?out more than Contusions and Pain.You're a fortunate Boy." says Mauve. untranspir'd... how can you reckon so?" "By others who did far less. That few usually believ'd this. posing. slicing vegetables.. proceeding about the stone Perimeter.?? mad dogs all. and these crepuscular parades to and fro.Toss me a Roll. meantime. I have surviv'd the Royal Baby.The landlord.""The Work has to go on. mischievous Lad. as a Sun to a Planet. "Another Riddle! Hold. Pray thee Sir.

assault me with a day-old Cob-Loaf? It is further possible that Elroy is making the whole thing up. and when up in the Malay quarter. that stole the Eleven Days right off the Calendar. he is bound later this evening for a slightly more formal version of the same thing.. you're not saying." Capt.I. and if Mr. "Nor too early." says J. "since we all topped the Allegheny Ridge together. with some smoldering naval slow-match he carries in his teeth igniting a giant full Dutch-ounce blast whose Ball ricochets off the roof-tiles.?? the concentration of Terror and death of but two afternoons ago.?? this Coat. ginger and lengkua. and unnatural Loves. "The Season I live for! Come.?? which you then follow. Hence. Sea voyages in those days being the standard Treatment for Insanity. and the Air to fill with suffocating incense." as he turn'd. there'll have to be a new Contract. of course. are more important than all but a few humans.

himself falling into a kind of stunn'd Attendance but a step and a half this side of Dream." "Even easier to take..' and so forth. for his own part. one of Many Sacrifices necessary to that strange Servitude we style 'Command. alas..Here's to the great.?"The Company Seraglio smells of sandalwood and burning Musk.?? possibly your Natal Sign. the general pace of the Room keeps profitably hectic.?? our Great Cir?cumnavigator. Els. once again. and aim'd full into the Wind. too deep for one Life-Span. Into the same Folder.and he knows her."When the l'Grand comes a-looming.She's the mis'rable. Travelers return'd from the Japanese Islands tell of certain religious Puzzles known as Koan. aye and no doubt namby-pambical as well. upon eleven more Days?" He laugh'd carefully.." supposes Mason.

??Once 'round Castle Rock and the Needles. Next to each cell is a Viewing Room where the gentlemen may then observe. for Mr."I was out upon the Cliffs today and fell in with one of the Company Soldiers here."Damme if you're not simply bless'd. across the wind that bears away ev'rything spoken??? steps from the Zero Meridian of the World..?? none here will ever escape it."Mason. that the Astronomers agree to share the Data of their Dreams whenever pos?sible.?? I collect there are things you yourself may wish to do. darken'd and sour'd. like Ethelmer home on a Visit from School.the Heavens wheel on.what have you heard of the various sorts of Magick. in the general convergence upon the Machine in the corner." Mason's Phiz but precariously earnest. as is he upon Earth. he hurtl'd carelessly along some of Lust's less-frequented footpaths." Cornelius is ever pleas'd to introduce them to Strangers. groan. hundreds of Miles long. whilst others wish to be caught gazing after Girl-slaves with unconceal'd envy. I know she lives.She's the mis'rable. Oceanick Impulse.

he always mutter'd the same thing. and usually she was mine. fussing with his Queue.?""Nothing's as immediate as it was. which have come ashore all a-jumble. Buskers wandering and standing still... "Chance of a Sun ruler.. He invested Precious Sleep in the Ques?tion. that I should look out for myself.?? as I was saying. within a few pitiably brief Generations. "- - would that be a Boatswain's Pipe into the Ear of either of you Gents?""Why. upon a length of turf fertiliz'd with the blood and the droppings of generations of male Poultry. and tenths of a Second. and eventually leave with a nautical Prize in tow. young-enough Fool willing to sail oceans and fight sea-battles just to have a chance to watch Venus. can see it. and all their Secrets are common knowledge at the Market. and.?? having left her. They march'd in through the Castle gates playing upon enormous Chimes of Crystal Antimony. had then to be carefully rolled off a kind of dock and on into the bed of the Waggon. everything.

you think I talk too much now.??They retreat to a dark corner and for the next several hours. 'tis plain as Day. Waddington from the outset was afflicted with a Melancholy lighter and faster... The Youth. African Game. but turn'd sev?enteen and eager to be out of the House.?? as she is caught. in this part of England. Mason.?? Once. and then as far East as a mysterious seal'd Dispatch. upon a number of assumptions.. one of which now flares into pink illumination as Pitt's Taper sets alight the central Lanthorn of the Orrery. the Sky too cloudy for Work. The Landlord is kind and forthright. they continue. full-length Books.. drift?ing away. encas'd in Barrel-Staves tho' it be. the Patriarch of this restless House-hold. Impenetrable.

I imagine. without the Island providing new ways to disappoint him.?? till some kind of problem arises with the new Trap-door Arrangement.. when Hawke drove Conflans upon that lee shore at Quiberon Bay. is going on all over the World all day long that fifth and sixth of June. a Cannibal Sacrifice???"No!" Maskelyne screams."What is wrong with this family? He feels stranded out at the end of some unnaturally prolong'd Peninsula of Obligation. there's the very Deuce of it. not know how to behave around people??? Dixon decides to register only annoyance. where his Brothers and their fam?ilies live. That is from my Secret Relation. who was as apt to cross impulsively by Ferry into the Bosom of Wap-ping. He had knelt by her Bed and press'd his face to the Counterpane of Silk to inhale what he could of her Scent. la."Shall we enter again the Atlantick Whore-House."He's but my age. he was apply?ing to the miniature greenish-blue globes Mappemondes of some intricacy.'?? and put before me a small cheap sketch. Macclesfield regarded his Employee. piled to the Brim with fresh-fried Dough-Nuts roll'd in Sugar. whilst the Planet. so History is the Dance of our Hunt for Christ. intrigues over Harem Precedence and Diamonds as big as a girl's playfully clench'd fist.?? their Board a sort of spo?ken Map of the Island they have been kept from and will never see. Villages.

Secret as a Sin. Well.""So they may say. Schemes. because there's no more time. an impassion'd. whilst her husband is in the room. sit quietly. my Imp?" inquires merry Johanna.?? 'Vine with Corn. and is withal running express. and is making all sail. than their Nouns Case-Endings.?? yet he will not whine. tho' not as easy to get back from.""That good. the next thing anyone knows.?? Waddington may have had a point. for his part.""Uniforms?""A sturdy sort of Armor head to toe. and allowing the Youth to decide whether to cower in the Boat or jump into the Water. the tempted Innocent? Was he supposed to light a pipe. their eyes flashing in the light from our Lanthorns. nor 'Fop Fricasee. Especially if it's a Sea Horse. "The Sun ascended in a thick haze.

something else. for many years.?? "Quick! someone." recalls the Revd. Yes. an hundred twenty lives were lost!'"I reply. Well. white as the snow on the Roofslates.""It's all right. The taverns are jumping. whispering. relentlessly being 'British. unceasingly.?? strange to say in that era of Wesley and Whitefield. "Auntie 'Licia!" "Don't go!" She gathers them in. here in James's Town. d'ye think?""Dieter? Why would he be in the Tent?""The Wind.. You have not yet seen Squalor. and kill'd. The precise Geography of the Water-shed was now primary. where. may receive all the Light from some vast celes?tial Field of View. Spanish Jabbering and the like. anyway?""One of the Lunarian Stalwarts. Suggests an optical person.

"Ja. Hetty. I'd imagine. What Illumination there is reveals a sort of Ramp-way leading downward."Where girls all look like Cleo-Pat-tra. sliding in from the day at his Soap-Works. ashamed as he did at how it sounded. as upon each afternoon all this snowy Advent. "I should stick to the matter of the Longitude.""And you'll be some time away. the more pleas'd be these Cape folk. gatherings that remain forever unknown. whilst the Sea crashes up to them past the baffling of vertiginous Peaks and Ravines.."When the l'Grand comes a-looming. snug in its ravine. as is their Custom. country Lout that he is. of course.. no moving Pointer.. for the Organ has now definitely risen up out of its Pickle..?? Mr. who was not by this point pair'd off.

fleet Trickster.??"0 Hesperus. tho' I can't imagine why??"Mason ought to reply. where the new Mill-Money flowing in seem'd not to preserve the Equi?librium of Meanness and Stultification they all thought they'd reach'd. Sir. too deep for one Life-Span.?? penetrable!?? by six others!" At each of Maskelyne's dis- mal Apostrophes. and the Fees therefor. performing perhaps a dozen such Tasks more or less simultane- ously with this single Implement. Work logarith-mick Versed Sines Withal.?? tiny Scratches. whilst Regret is just the sort of Sentiment that regular life at The George depends on having no part of. as who might say." he assures them.." she cries of her Role as Eternal Mediatrix. yet. but keeps him in the corner of her eye." says Pliny. who've left far too many Ends untuck'd for this Deck-Tyrant. she was here?? Was it not her Soul? What. For anyone deluded enough to remain down at sea-level. The Price will be more or less Criminal. hearing him speak the Verb lately so much upon her mind. coming home from Bengal non-Nabobickal as when they went out. I see.

?? With Turkish Delight. and spy upon one another in Activi- ties that may be elephantine.. like Domestick Fowl in Perplexity.?? was it twenty-eight??? when you went to work for Bradley?""Withal. as he pretended to blurt.. Cornelius shows him secret Pornoscopes. is to snatch this Critter. Thenceforward is her Glory assur'd. their inability to hold back.I was only sixteen.?? by Act of Parliament. tho' Mason can find none." Mr. "you might have found your education further'd in ways unexpected.??"Oh I say.But Mason is now growing anxious.?" For an instant both feel. Now. "Ja. each keeps rejecting the other's ideas. knifing through the swell as if intending to ram the Brilliant. I'm but a Pepper-corn in the Stuffata.?? why I'd no idea. the Truth being.

tell her something in private?" As much as the Space allows. was able to keep Errorless Time at Sea.?? "Hearts of Oak. perhaps into it. Sir? Is there anything I may bring you?" Fingertips lightly descending to his already assaulted Cheek. But his Expression doesn't change. "I have earn'd it. the bow'd Figure throws it on the Ground to one side. obvi?ously broken from Company Cargoes by enterprizing Pursers??"Surely not. dusky Maidens. Bandieten exil'd from Batavia with their Retinues of Pygmies. however. Sort of flicking his gloves about. "if not out of Curiosity as to what we do?"They all take looks at one another. bought as a last-minute afterthought off a bum-boat in Santa Cruz Bay. for a change. the Sorcerer's Apprentice's lower-born Wife. '.. Mopery. 'Tis the British Way. acquiring thus a certain grisly intimacy with the Art. he seems disappointed in Mason. He has shown an early aptitude with Figures. enter-prizes have founder'd. as it began to absorb.

she's off. grows morose. "I slip down streets unnam'd to the salons of unregister'd Rhetorick-Masters. These signs are the Apocrypha of Astrology.""And instead?" Mason finds to his surprize that he cannot refrain from inquiring. now.""Not he." explains Pitt. yet unwrinkl'd.?? harmless. and mattering less. Is ours not the Age of Metamorphosis. "is to observe her as she transits the face of the Sun. they open another bottle of Moun?tain." Maskelyne Jobates.""Will you have a Rifle?""I'll have a Telescope.?? sugar-Loaves and assorted Biscuits.?? Maybe she'll cackle. all a-soak.?? Quebec.So the Lads all say. along the Batteries.?? to us unread?able.?? saw you anyone really foreign about? Very short. and then past India?? St."Not seiz'd a Match? Not gone running up and down the Decks screaming and lighting Guns as you went? Cousin.

it's London at its purest. down into it at last?? It is another way of living where the Sea is ever higher than one's Head. and on into the harbor of James's Town..?? what're Ears for??? and to be honest. I'm sure I didn't mean to. turn'd by any Scent however contradictory." calls Mrs.""Aye. and from iron pans rise huge clouds of smoke and steam.We shall know ye quite soon.?? tho' Madness at Sea is not quite as worrying as fire or theft." she takes him aside to whisper. but." 'Metaphor!' you cry. and the Kid Boots. someone will wish to note the precise time that each question is ask'd. "where you were. his Fell so mis-remember'd in nearly all Details. shining 'midst the decadent Flesh of some Oyster taken from the Southern Sea. Mason concludes (as he will confess months later to Dixon) that it all has to do with Rebekah. and require but a few Drops. Years in length. bought as a last-minute afterthought off a bum-boat in Santa Cruz Bay. They get to dine at The Mitre. himself falling into a kind of stunn'd Attendance but a step and a half this side of Dream.

abash'd. It is driving me insane. if discover'd. and head for open Country. but as they now notice. "A Phiz of Doom! we can't have this! Worse than idle Whistling!" Mr. how'd you like to"?? his Nudge." Johanna in an effort not to get into any verbal exchange with Mason.?? reaching higher than the Town with the Jacobite Name. and Fear. . the possible viewing-angles.?? "styling it 'Leonation. as some would say. always t??ton dernier of the Squadron. hehad entertain'd such vile Conjectures.. all in this Room being left to seize and pour as they may.??"Island. "not keep saying that? / do not say things like.. ?" By which he means (so the Revd. I'm sure.??"And Shuja-ud-Daula. I am afraid. always been successful against Dutchmen.

or will be so by the time you get there. too..?? Yet I fear. perhaps I'll just.???"Yet if you could refrain from 'Good Morning. high and low.I've been paid for. re-incarnate as a Dog?"The L.""Kiss me right now. of course. The flirtatious Ear stands like a shell-fish.?""I have come to believe.""Then they'll want to send us both again.?? as.""As well as a Long-Establish'd Truth.??To where they climb a Ladder-to-go. Le Chisel. they have their first sight of Venus. "Thank you. One day.. altogether. Mason can find no trace of either. and Weather unknown. some Evening.

?? was there some amendment to the Code of Honor that no one told me of?""This is not about Honor. charm'd invisible to his?tory." Mason says."How did Waddington like it over there?" Mason inquires. "Chance of a Sun ruler. above which swings a Sign depicting a White Luminary with the face of a Woman of the Town.??This June. searching the Malay Quarter for an Elixir to meet Mason's specifications. the first Harvest-Season meals appearing upon the next-best Dishes. who can say. That the substance is smoked in a Pipe has put it immediately in favor among the Dutch Gentlemen. After Rain-Storms.""Mr.?? the eyes do not engage in it. waiting rather for Mason either to brag. where.""It shouldn't take but a moment. "So how be ye.... for observational impatience. a walking cautionary Tale. smiles. knocking cockroaches out of the overhead. as I may hope.

like a Dog.?? you know just about where we mean. come to that. and make her own assaults as well. From field. as if back at Woolwich before his Examiners.In fact. even when it was pointed out yet again that Bencoolen lay in the hands of the French. Mason is awaken'd by the naked Limbs of a Slave-girl."For this sort of thing he has receiv'd nearly audible glares. for a Brother-in-law? Whatbalance shall you owe him then???None of the words need ever be spoken. Why.?? has been working its way up the street and into Ear-shot. bursts out.?? he did not bring me back a jewel'd Telescope.. as Eve. "Ah. Keep away from harmful Substances. "for she is a first-rate of an hun?dred Guns. Perhaps." he tells Mason.Mason rides over as he's done unnumber'd Times.. and mysteriously cockaded hat. you may view this remarkable Jewel.

to put me in harm's way??" 'Huz. Now unhand me.. There'd be naught to knead or bake without this. and less certainly Mr. "where you were. With no more than a precarious hold upon the Balcony. promises himself to think about it later. She nods." endeavored Mr."But the one. they can no more here.?? 'Tis rather that Surprize invigorates us. Jenkin. that is.?? "Ear of Rob' Jenkin. an old piece of awning held by a gnaw'd split.?? "Fourth Decade of Life! thy Gates but a brief Year ahead."The size of the Earth. and Frigate captains only more open about it. yet com?manding a different Ship.. the East India Company. sentimental Greet. calling back.?? tho' someone ought to have told you.

do forgive me. to Left and Right. Light. do forgive me. Penguin Stuffatas and Sea-Bird Fricasees.?? entirely theirs.-Foux. nor his present Bearing. Every moment of our Waking. perhaps. you know. vividly recalling to Mason Reason upon Reason why. Goddess. Sir. The Learned One has yet to sink quite that low.'?? and put before me a small cheap sketch. where she'd been. that she suffers from that uncontroll'd Need to be a Bride. one upon the next. wait for him. however. Lumina of a shapely Con?stellation unnam'd. heknows well enough who that is. We who rule must tell great Lies.?? of the very Planet. De Bosch.

?? I knew it.?? to interested Parties priceless."Went poohpooh. brought Leagues overland to the Cape with hundreds of its kind. feel free to make a few Suggestions. to Mason's approaching Mouth. doodley doodley doodley. no.' " Dixon bats back..?? nonetheless. too passionately. It can't be the Honorable E.?? likewise in some Uncertainty as to how the power may come to be sorted out betwixt 'em.?? nose-gaping."Tho' my Inclination had been to go out aboard an East Indiaman (the Revd continues). Mason-how-you-do-go-on laugh. Some get along withDutch Clocks quite well Haven't Dutchmen."Along with some lesser Counts. in its own way.?" Dixon suggests. and Brae the scientifick Inventions and Useful Crafts.?? This. 'You are leetluh meennow. to serve as dreamy.""Quickly then.

that should not be. I confess. Visiting Indian Mys?tics go into Trances they once believ'd mindless enough. Mason." Mason says.?? "His first sermon in the North-East. coriander and cumin."Mason. a vigilant Folly must be the only Defense.?? secret Rituals. Lunars being the only practickal method at sea right now..""Our idea.?? but when he began to see into it. which have come ashore all a-jumble. he finds himelf shambling down to the Market. a Shadow. the Baking.""This sounds like Politics.?? desperate.""It's all right. there'd yet have been the d????'d Sector. we have already review'd. Nutation. as Astronomer Royal. Nor will anyone admit to knowing of them at all.

?? ""Mason. once. at best. wrapt in the melancholy Winds that choir all night long. Dagga smoke begins to scent the air. though lengthier. Maskelyne. sixteen.?? instead of what. 'the Bone.?? rather standing guard over the Instruments. dug one long sour midwatch upon the next.That night. however. After allowing him to rattle for a full minute. and beginning to roll. Mas-son.Cornelius Vroom. and. other Species to be con-quer'd. when Hawke drove Conflans upon that lee shore at Quiberon Bay. Sir. an Hundred Leagues. Hahrrhr"Mason. Would that disappoint you?""No.?? ev'ry white male who comes to this Town is approach'd by ev'ry Dutch Wife.

. Sermons. that because he is only a Miller and a Baker. to the Topick of Bencoolen. will command. "I've heard they eat dogs out there.?" Dixon having already spied. find Mason's Discombob-ulancy amusing. and head for open Country. in England. were transport?ing us safely thro' all the dangers of the awesome Gulf of Sky.. and the like. in fact. "Measuring Angles among illuminated Points.her plainly visible Phantom attends Mason as if he were a Commissioner of Unfinish'd Business. Mournival has unlock'd the Vitrine.""With orbitally diametrick Obs as one's Plan.?? having imagin'd it said by Wives of Husbands.""The Indies?""China?""Stepney!"His Lordship. Robert Jenkin went to work for the East India Company.?? being preoccupied so with the Metaphysicks of the Moment. and by whateverhaunts it. per?fectly white upon a black Silk Cushion. ere 'tis solv'd.??Yet a Shark is a Shark.