"First mate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... disasters in this story, with the First Mate's death occurring soon after the start of the book, and Leigh's promotion to the position. After that there are an attack by pirates, a shipwreck, an attack by hostile natives, all of which Leigh does his ...
— The First Mate - The Story of a Strange Cruise • Harry Collingwood
... of him out of the corner of her glowing young eyes long before he became seriously and mortally afflicted. Certainly the first mate of the Sunyado Maru was no believer in ...
— Peter the Brazen - A Mystery Story of Modern China • George F. Worts
... when they saw any of the rest of us looking at them; and now and then they exchanged glances that I was at a loss to understand until all at once a new thought dawned on me: since the captain and the first mate were dead, the command of the ship devolved upon Mr. ...
— The Mutineers • Charles Boardman Hawes |
