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(It was smallpox in Huck Finn, not plague.)
I did a bit of research: O’Brian was apparently referencing an historical case of a British captain using that ploy, not Twain’s fictional one.
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I did a bit of research: O’Brian was apparently referencing an historical case of a British captain using that ploy, not Twain’s fictional one.
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I may be constantly at a loss to understand all the nautical terminology, at least I’m able to get a good laugh by recognizing that Stephen Maturin fakes out the dangerous Spanish frigate Cacafuegos by using the same “plague” ploy that works for Huck Finn in ch.16 of Twain’s classic!
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