Sinopsis

Manx Bradley was an iral“iral of the fleet”though it must be itted that his personal appearance did not suggest a position so exalted. With rough pilot coat and sou’-wester, scarred and tarred hands, easy, rolling gait, and boots from heel to hip, with inch-thick soles, like those of a dramatic buccaneer, he bore as little resemblance to the popular idea of a lace-coated, brass-buttoned, cock-hatted iral as a sea-urchin bears to a cockle-shell. Nevertheless Manx was a real iralas real as Nelson, and much harder worked.