hen-swains

Updated: May 31, 2025

Let me, however, make sail and get under way with my yarn. Cast we our eyes outward once again, beyond the boats with their beautiful coxswains I mean hen-swains to where that huge glistening iron mass floats proudly on the main. Reader, that object is the heroine, if I may so say, of this very unromantic story.

J. J. Smith - In Eastern Seas : Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83