by hints, i asked him whether he did not propose going back, and having a coronation; since he might now consider his father dead and gone, he being very old and feeble at the last accounts. he answered no, not yet; and added that he was fearful christianity, or rather christians, had unfitted him for ascending the pure and undefiled throne of thirty pagan kings before him. but by and by, he said, he would return,—as soon as he felt himself baptized again. for the nonce, however, he proposed to sail about, and sow his wild oats in all four oceans. they had made a harpooneer of him, and that barbed iron was in lieu of a sceptre now.