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A collection of short, self-contained tales set largely at sea and in port that blend dry humour, local colour, and occasional macabre surprise. Each vignette sketches incidents involving shipboard life, eccentric shipmasters and crew, odd cargoes, and shore-side encounters, with plots built from practical jokes, misunderstandings, smuggling schemes, and romantic complications. The narratives are concise and observational, moving briskly to ironic or comic payoffs, and the overall mood shifts between genial comedy and darker, unexpectedly sharp twists.

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Title: Many cargoes

Author: W. W. Jacobs

Release date: May 1, 2004 [eBook #5758]
Most recently updated: March 16, 2025

Language: English

Credits: Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks, David Widger and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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MANY CARGOES

by W. W. JACOBS

Second Edition

New York

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