Tales of Hearsay by Joseph Conrad, Fiction, Literary, Short Stories, Historical

& 34;Put a red sash round his waist and a red handkerchief round his head and he would look exactly like one of them buccaneering chaps that made men walk the plank and carried women off into captivity!& 34;So said another captain about Captain Johns& 39; new mate aboard the Sapphire, the fine ship now at dock in London. With hair dark as a raven& 39;s wing, the new mate little knew what would come of shipping with superstitious Johns, who believed in ghosts -- no more than he knew what strange events awaited him on the rolling seas ahead.