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"Mr. Trunnell, Partner of the Dispatch Pirate" (1900) is a sea novel by Thornton Jenkins Hains.
Excerpt:
"I found myself, not many years back, "on the beach" at Melbourne, in Australia. For being on the beach is no uncommon event for a sailor; but, because the question is suggested, I will say that I was not a very dissipated young fellow of twenty-five, for up to that time I possessed never even tasted rum in virtually any form, although I had fashioned followed the ocean for seven years. I had fashioned organised a mate's berth, so that as I did not caution to ship prior to the mast on the first vessel destined out, I had fashioned remained ashore until a intimidating landlord managed to get essential for me to become less particular as to occupation. It was a period when mates were plenty and men were few, so I made the rounds of the shipment homes with little expectation of getting a chance to show my paperwork. These, together with an old quadrant, a nautical almanac, a heavy pea layer, and a tube, were all I possessed of this world's goods..."
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Thornton Jenkins Hains (1866-1953) was a popular American sea novelist best known today for his role in the murder of William Annis.
