Dutchman Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 From Adventures by Sea of Edward Coxere. to set this up without having to read the whole journal. they are off the barbary coast and he is about to battle the spanish. "I being stripped to a pair of drawers, and shorts, as to fight in...." shorts at sea?? if it helps, Coxere is English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quartermaster James Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 Had they just come from Bermuda? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 Whereabouts in the book is this incident? It might be nothing more than a transcribing or printing error, I can check my edition. Foxe"With this Fore-Staff he fansies he does Wonders, when, God knows, it amounts to no more but only to solve that simple Question, Where are we? Which every chi'd in London can tell you." - Ned Ward The Wooden World Dissected, 1707ETFox.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Pyrat Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 One thing I found interesting was the similarity between slops and the cargo shorts we wear today. The Charles Towne Few - We shall sail... The sea will be our empire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. Sterling Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 Whereabouts in the book is this incident? It might be nothing more than a transcribing or printing error, I can check my edition. That would be great... as I am thinking perhaps it should be shirt... "I being shot through the left cheek, the bullet striking away great part of my upper jaw, and several teeth which dropt down the deck where I fell... I was forced to write what I would say to prevent the loss of blood, and because of the pain I suffered by speaking."~ Woodes Rogers Crewe of the Archangel http://jcsterlingcptarchang.wix.com/creweofthearchangel# http://creweofthearchangel.wordpress.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 Whereabouts in the book is this incident? It might be nothing more than a transcribing or printing error, I can check my edition. That would be great... as I am thinking perhaps it should be shirt... That was my first thought. Of course, I may have the same edition as Dutchy, but I know someone else with a copy and I think Mission has one too. One of us must have a different ed. Foxe"With this Fore-Staff he fansies he does Wonders, when, God knows, it amounts to no more but only to solve that simple Question, Where are we? Which every chi'd in London can tell you." - Ned Ward The Wooden World Dissected, 1707ETFox.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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