Francis MacDonald Journal * Facsimile and Transcription
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to speak an inferior rigged vessel.56 We salute each other very courteously each morning, that is, the Captain [and] cabin passengers. Crowe is not pleased 5 when we talk to the steerage passengers.57 Custom does a great deal. Ships when passing each other if on friendly terms sal- ute each other by hanging at the mizzen gaff end, the national ensign.58 Men, 10 again at least British men, salute each other by nodding, bowing, shaking hands [etc]. I recollect being laughed at one time for defending an article of McLean's in the Review, entitled 15 “A proposal to introduce nose-pulling as one of the Civilities of Life.”59 Now the only reason we have for calling the proposal absurd, is, that we have a conventional mode of thinking. To 20 an individual who was unac- quainted with either custom, both would seem equally absurd. In some countries they rub noses, in [End of Page 29]
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