Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Captain Lawry signed on a new cook, one Earl Battice, Mississippi mulatto. With Mr. Battice came Mrs. Battice, wife. Mr. Battice insisted on having her along. The Kingsway, full of fate, started across the torrid Atlantic...
...thought, the very thought, of a woman on board, Mate Mortimer ground his teeth. A woman was not merely unlucky but against all sea tradition. If Captain Lawry did not know that then he ought to read Jack London and learn something...
...took Mrs. Battice six days to die. Mr. Battice also groaned constantly, in rusty irons. The crew grew restive. Captain Lawry would command one thing, Mate Mortimer another. More often than not they obeyed Mate Mortimer. On two days they refused all work...
...Monrovia, Liberia, bound homeward, Captain Lawry shipped another cook, one Codjo, blackamoor, who came over the side wearing a blanket woven of human hair. From the first, his cooking was dubious. Then Captain Lawry and Mate Mortimer felt strangely ill. They were swelling, swelling. They bloated all over to "twice natural size." Fortified with strychnine, Captain Lawry staggered forward to berate Codjo, whom he found, sick as himself, lying naked in a bunk conjuring with three little sticks, a voodoo curse on the ship...
...Blood Ship. The captain is a ruthless desperado who murders and tortures those unfortunate enough to have been shanghaied aboard his Seven Seagoing vessel. When the crew finally rises in mutiny their leader is discovered to be the man whose wife and infant daughter the gory captain had stolen years ago. The daughter has grown up to be the one lovely thing aboard, so there is a hero...