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I have been beaten by a negro lad as big again as myself, and only a
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Recollections: the reminiscences of the busy life of one who has played the varied parts of sailor, author & lecturer, 1915
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350:'A Brief History of Nautical Stories', Rowland Smythe, 1994.
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