of Americans, a great many Portuguese, some Spaniards, Norwegians,
and 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