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Captain Bob   /kˈæptən bɑb/   Listen
Captain Bob

noun
1.
United States explorer who accompanied Peary's expedition to the North Pole and who led many other Arctic trips (1875-1946).  Synonyms: Bartlett, Robert Abram Bartlett, Robert Bartlett.






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"Captain Bob" Quotes from Famous Books



... things he loved more than anything else in life, and that rifle was one of them. The other was his platoon commander, Captain Bob Dashwood, who chanced to be coming along the communication at the moment, and the Cockney private's eyes lit up as ...
— With Haig on the Somme • D. H. Parry

... fag-end of a cruise in an English man-of-war, and a speedy discharge at Portsmouth. Paper Jack and Consul Wilson had other designs, and still hoped to reclaim them to their duty on board the crazy Julia. On their stubborn refusal, they were given in charge to a fat, good-humoured, old Tahitian, called Captain Bob, who, at the head of an escort of natives, conveyed them up the country to a sort of shed, known as the Calabooza Beretanee or English jail, used as a prison for refractory sailors. This commences Typee's shore-going adventures, not less pleasant and original than his sea-faring ones; ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 • Various



Words linked to "Captain Bob" :   adventurer, explorer, Robert Bartlett



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