wheat-ship

Updated: May 5, 2025

'Let me see.... No. They may make inquiries there. Drown him at sea. Nobody can ask questions of the sharks. 'Foundered between Tyre and Crete, from which sad calamity only one man escaped on a raft, and being picked tip, after three weeks' exposure to the fury of the elements, by a returning wheat-ship By the bye, most noble, what am I to say about those wheat-ships not having even sailed?

Charles Kingsley - Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face