[lit-ideas] Re: Canada
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:06:30 -0800
Thanks for the answers. Now I know.
By way of reward, here's the oddest anecdote from this morning's reading,
Dale Walker, "Pacific Destiny."
In December 1794 Kendrick was killed in a bizarre accident as his ship lay
at anchor off Honolulu. The British trader "Jackal," anchored adjacent to
the American vessel, fired its saluting cannon to honor Kendrick, but the
gun had been inadvertently "shotted"--loaded with round- and
grapeshot--which pierced the side of the "Washington" and decaptitated
Kendrick as he sat at his mess table.
Since Kendrick had, during the unpleasantness between Britian and the
American colonies, been a privateer, one wonders how accidental the shotting
actually was.
David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon
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