He was wrecked on the Peruvian coast and became a beachcomber, and then got a berth in a whaler.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
The former beachcomber wore Western clothes and had trimmed his once luxuriant and scraggly beard, but he was none the less unmistakably Handcraft.
"The Boy Scouts On The Range"
Lieut. Howard Payson
He began to talk of the performances of my little two-year-old, beachcomber; and after twenty minutes or so, he drifted away.
"The Deluge"
David Graham Phillips