lorchers

Updated: May 13, 2025

Here, I regret to think, I committed an act which has often haunted my conscience as a crime; although I had frequently promised the captain of a gun a glass of grog to let me have a shot, and was mightily pleased if death and destruction rewarded my aim. Off Chinhai, lorchers and fast sailing junks laden with merchandise would try to run the blockade before daylight.

Henry J. (Henry John) Coke - Tracks of a Rolling Stone