ex-ship

Updated: May 28, 2025

Only a few years ago an old and valued American friend of mine an ex-ship captain settled in the Gilbert Islands in the North Pacific became annoyed at what he deemed to be the excessive prices the natives charged for fish. The "excessive price," I may mention, meant that he was asked a half-dollar for a basket of fish weighing, say, fifty or sixty pounds.

Louis Becke - Five-Head Creek; and Fish Drugging In The Pacific : 1901