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Updated: May 27, 2025
But our fishermen, with a happy disregard of orthography, and, perhaps, with an eye to that brevity which is said to be the soul of wit, prefer to call it Skimlico. When the gear was down the men retired to their little cabin to refresh themselves with a meal and a pipe. The skipper, who had recovered neither his spirits nor his self-respect since his recent fall, preferred to remain on deck.
One night, some days after the incident just recorded, the Evening Star shot her gear, in obedience to orders, on the port hand, and proceeded, with the rest of the fleet, to give a pressing invitation to those fish which inhabited that particular shoal in the North Sea known to fishermen by the name of Skimlico. The name, when properly spelt, runs thus: Schiermonik-oog.
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