incognitoes

Updated: June 11, 2025

When an officer wanted a man for any particular duty running aloft, say, to communicate some slight order to the captains of the tops how easy, in that mob of incognitoes, to individualise "that white jacket," and dispatch him on the errand. Then, it would never do for me to hang back when the ropes were being pulled.

Herman Melville - White Jacket: or, the World on a Man-of-War