There were two large boats and a tiny one, and trouble came fromKreps' tin cans of specimens, for the captain wouldn't take them inhis boat, nor the first mate inside his, so Kreps wanted to put them inthe tiny boat. He shed tears and got low inside his mind.

"Dey are von der sciences ignorant, obtuse," he says.

I says, "So's the Pacific 0cean."

"But you, so young, so intelligent! Not as de Pacific 0cean, hein?"

I allowed there was difference between me and the Pacific. Kreps gothis tin cans in, and I put the boat off. Kamelillo was spreading thecat-sail and had no opinion. Veronica came flapping over the railwith a squawk, and lit on Kamelillo, and fell into the bottom of theboat. We got away after the other boats, the evening coming on clear,and Kamelillo talked island dialects at Veronica for scratching himwhen he wanted to be let alone. Kreps sat over his specimens,innocent and happy and singing German lullabies.