The Innocents Abroad

Chapter 60

Ten or eleven o'clock found us coming down to breakfast one morning in

Cadiz. They told us the ship had been lying at anchor in the harbor two

or three hours. It was time for us to bestir ourselves. The ship could

wait only a little while because of the quarantine. We were soon on

board, and within the hour the white city and the pleasant shores of

Spain sank down behind the waves and passed out of sight. We had seen no

land fade from view so regretfully.

It had long ago been decided in a noisy public meeting in the main cabin

that we could not go to Lisbon, because we must surely be quarantined

there. We did every thing by mass-meeting, in the good old national way,

from swapping off one empire for another on the programme of the voyage

down to complaining of the cookery and th