pre-chaucer

Updated: May 25, 2025

I pieced these out with answers to my questions, for often Steve's English was more puzzling than pre-Chaucer poetry. The El Dorado was a five-masted schooner, twelve years old, and left Astoria, Oregon, for Antofagasta, Chile, on a Friday, more than seven months before, with a crew of eleven all told: the captain, two mates, a Japanese cook, and seven men before the mast.

Frederick O'Brien - Mystic Isles of the South Seas.