Posted by John Wilson on October 31, 2003 at 10:49:35 from 202.154.157.115 user hugo.
After Swallow has been wrecked, the Ss & As change and have their last dip before eating at Horseshoe Cove (SD chapter VII):
“Captain Flint, sitting among them in his flannel trousers and white shirt, with his shirt sleeves rolled to the elbow, drinking ginger beer out of the bottle and taking big bites out of enormous sandwiches, looked like the solitary shipwrecked sailor in the middle of a lot of piebald, pigmy savages”.