Coe turned up from Sydney, where he had gone for a general refitting and overhaul, just as Mrs. Tweedie was taking her passage in the Olive Branch, missionary auxiliary Barkentine for Honolulu.
"Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas"
Lloyd Osbourne
Captain Corker had picked him up at Penrhyn, and the trader there said he had been landed from a Barkentine, lumber laden, from Portland, and from there back there was a haze on his past thicker than Bobby Carter's.
"Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas"
Lloyd Osbourne
She is now quite close to us, and proves to be a Barkentine under full sail.
"Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera"
Charles M. Taylor, Jr.