text:  The cheers which followed on the health of the Queen being given appeared to him like those which hailed her passage at the prorogation of Parliament a most incomprehensible and somewhat indecorous proceeding; his own health was also drunk as a _lion_ but "not being able to reply from my ignorance of the language a gentleman of my acquaintance thanked them in my name; while I also stood up and made a _salaam_ as much as to say that I highly appreciated the honour done me