Tobias Smollett wrote in Peregrine Pickel - he was a surgeon's Second Mate in the Royal Navy:
This same Davy Jones,
according to the mythology of sailors,
is the fiend that presides
over all the evil spirits of the deep,
and is often seen in various shapes,
perching among
the rigging on the eve of hurricanes,
ship-wrecks, and other disasters
to which sea-faring life is exposed,
warning the devoted wretch
of death and woe. . ."
From the ANNOTATED Treasure Island (2014) text by R.L. Stevenson and notes/intro.
by Simon Baker-Benfield ISBN is 9781937075019
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