Sketches in Ultra-Marine, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Sketches in Ultra-Marine, Vol. 2 Diplomacy is like a funeral. It invests everybody engaged in it with an air of sacred importance for the time. Reflect on this, reader, and you will see that it is unusually true for an epigram. Doth not poor Hobbins, slowly marching with his black wand, look a loftier creature than his brother plebeian? Even so our friends at embassies seem great men, from their occupation; and naval captains become so, of course, when diplomatic duties devolve on them. The captain of the Intolerable, for example, was twice the man, at least, when visiting a consul in the Archipelago on political business. The captain of the Verdant landed an armed party to call the Pasha of Snobkali to account for an insult to the British flag, and made the Pasha apologise. Yet the captain of the Verdant was not personally an important man! Intrinsically, indeed, he was Adam Jones, R.N., with scarcely talent enough to manage a country post office. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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