Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

by Patrick O'Brian

boletus edulis of Linnaeus.’

Or Penny bun it’s a mushroom

phthisis.

Tuberculosis

dianthus perfragrans.

A plant, similar to candy floss in appearance

Tapinoma erraticum.

Small black ant

Most fourteen-gun sloops were between two hundred and two hundred and fifty tons in burthen: the Sophie could scarcely be

Sophie:

HMS Surprise in the movie

cunt-splice

foretopgallantsail

maintop

futtock-shrouds

forestays’l for’ard: you’ll never see one, but on a man-of-war.’

fo’c’sle.

bowsprit:

crowfoot,

Sophie’s keel is fifty-nine feet long;

lee sheet

weather sheet:

cockpit,

Stettin oak,

forepeak

staysails

Surprise is everything.’ Surprise, surprise.

Non fui non sum non curo,

I was not, i was, i am not, I care not" Epicurean epititaph.

hawse-hole,

Topgallants,’

xebec

Mediteranean sailing ship

larboard

Old version of port, left side

maintopgallantmast