They rented him off to pick Coconuts from a woman's orchard and didn't see much point in dismissing the added revenue.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
Here is one instance: he accused officers and men, from the senior officer under him downwards, of being thieves, alleging publicly on the quarter-deck that they stole his Coconuts.
"The Naval Pioneers of Australia"
Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery
There were bits of flotsam, including Coconuts that had washed in.
"The Wailing Octopus"
Harold Leland Goodwin