sa-traps

Updated: January 11, 2026

Upon these occasions, surrounded by his post-captain sa-traps each of whom in his own floating island is king the Commodore domineers over all emperor of the whole oaken archipelago; yea, magisterial and magnificent as the Sultan of the Isles of Sooloo.

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