A new theory concerning Captain Flint's elephant flag


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Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on September 27, 2005 at 17:52:02 from 213.38.124.194 user ACB.

The flag flown over the houseboat is a white elephant on a green ground.

As all readers of Joseph Conrad's "Typhoon" are aware, the flag of the Kingdom of Siam was a white elephant on a red ground.

At one time I suspected AR of red/green colour blindness, in which case he certainly should not have gone sailing on his own or stood a night watch on his own.

However, I have come up with a better hypothesis.

I suggest that James Turner was a member of the Oriental Club, as he may very well have been, having spent some part of his life in the East, bumping ship's lifeboats against the coast of Java, travelling in ships of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, and so on.

The flag of the Oriental Club, which may be seen any day flying over the club house (Stratford Place, opposite Bond Street Tube station) was then, and is today, a white elephant on a green ground.


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