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Mr Smith, a sea-officer of the small, trim, brisk, round-headed, portwine kind, once shipmates with Stephen in the Lively and now second in the Goliath, rode by on a camel, with his legs folded negligently over the creature’s neck to the manner born:
Patrick O'Brian • HMS Surprise
L. N. FOWLER
Mick Jackson • The Underground Man
Edmund Scot who came aboard from the Bantam factory. His ‘extraordinarie
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
The Shipping News and Death of a Shipowner and engrossed in the textbooks Maritime Economics by Martin Stopford and Ship Finance: Credit Expansion & the Boom-Bust Cycle by Peter Stokes.
Matthew McCleery • The Shipping Man
meet him off Gravesend with a barge
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
William Keeling,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Nathaniel Courthope,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Pullings pointed out the principal charms of the island: Holdfast Tom, Stone Top, and Old Joan Point – he had landed several times, and he did wish he could show the Doctor the bird that haunted Diana’s Peak, a cross between an owl and a poll-parrot, with a curious bill.