alightee

Updated: May 11, 2025

Whoever the occupant of the boat might be, he was evidently neither an enemy nor a spy; for hardly had the challenge left the seaman's mouth when the reply came out of the darkness, in a thin, high-pitched, timid voice: "All alightee; all alightee; it only me."

Harry Collingwood - A Chinese Command: A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas