Word: xebec
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...Brian is also a shameless wag, who early in the series has the hulking Aubrey escape overland from the French disguised as a dancing bear, led by Maturin as bear trainer, and who is not above calling a ferocious Spanish xebec-frigate defeated by Aubrey the Cacafuego, which means exactly what first-year Spanish students think it means (s___-fire...
...pretty as her picture. He also finds Napoleon's troops trying to put down Toussaint's revolution, and willy-nilly mixes in on Toussaint's side. By page 300 Haiti is left far behind; Albion and Lydia languish as prisoners aboard a Tripolitan xebec manned by ruffians in green turbans, and Lear has become U.S. Consul General in Algiers...
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