chine-he

Updated: July 3, 2025

It was rapidly growing dark, when, close under the bulwarks, and in very near neighbourhood to one of our big bow guns, we came upon what looked in the gloom like a heap of clothes. "What's that?" I said. "Chine-he, sir," said one of the sailors. "We give him a good tuck-out below, and he come up then for a snooze. Hi, John! The gents want to speak to you."

George Manville Fenn - Blue Jackets: The Log of the Teaser