{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Traveller's Tale\nIt* was *confusing, sir—\nAll those damned cherubs hanging in the air\nTangling their wings against the mizzen-mast;\nAnd then the mermaids—trouble enough we had,\nSuch crowds of creatures tumbling through the waves,\nThe crew agape in round astonishment.\nAnd Triton always blowing up somewhere\nSounding his conch-shell trumpet-like at us;\nAnd whales that stretched the length of continents\nAnd took us twenty days to sail around.\nAnd all the scrolls, sir, mixed up with the clouds,\nThey made the voyage very troublesome—\nThe same again, sir, thank you very much.\nYou know the pictures then, the maps and prints?\nThose were the crowded days for voyaging,\nThe things I've seen I doubt if you'd believe,\nBut this here jack-knife proves I've been around—\nIt's slit near thirty heathen at the throat,\nYou'll know, to feel the edge, sir.\nThat there's Columbus at the Isle of Pearls,\nI and Columbus, sir, we stride the deck,\nHis name in letters written round his head.\nThe waves like that, all fixed and ribbed with light,\nThe naked Indians in the foreground here\nAre just as I remember.\n Thank you, sir.\nAnd not a space unfilled. Three-masters those,\nI just forget\nHow they got mixed up with the Isle of Pearls,\nBoarding and gunning with their sails square-rigged\nAnd puffs of smoke that, staying in the air,\nBlot out a toppling Spaniard but his leg.\nAye, that's the Gold Lion, too,\nWith ten dead Indians swinging at the mast.\nDe Bry's the fellow, sir, that done the prints\nAnd got it very accurate.\n I said to him\n“Put in a cherub, Will, to blow the wind,”\nAnd showed him how to draw the mermaids so,\nAnd very lifelike, too.\n Well, thank you, sir.\nYes, the first turning, thirty paces down,\nThat's the best way. You'll not mistake it, sir.\nOne for the road? Your health, then. Down the hatch.\n","provider_name":"Coggle","provider_url":"https://coggle.it","thumbnail_url":"https://static.coggle.it/diagram/WFCzXU2KA1huiarE/thumbnail","width":1920,"height":1200,"html":""}