ganger-in-chief

Updated: May 24, 2025

But when I asked Stanislao 'Ah! said he, 'she is content; she is religious, she passes all her days with the sisters. His French is fluent, his talk sensible and spirited, and in his capacity of ganger-in-chief, he is of excellent service to the French. With the prestige of his name and family, and with the stick when needful, he keeps the natives working and the roads passable.

Robert Louis Stevenson - In the South Seas