Frederick Marryat
Frederick Marryat
Captain Frederick Marryatwas a British Royal Navy officer, a novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens'. He is noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story, particularly for his semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy, for his children's novel The Children of the New Forest, and for a widely used system of maritime flag signalling, known as Marryat's Code...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth10 July 1792
vegetables blood turnips
There's no getting blood out of a turnip.
dream lying sleep
In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the sea is often fanned only by the land and sea breezes, and is like a smooth bed, on which these islands seem to sleep in bliss,--islands in which the spice and perfume gardens of the world are embowered, and where the bird of paradise has its home, and the golden pheasant, and a hundred others of brilliant plumage, whose flight is among thickets so luxuriant, and scenery so picturesque, that European strangers find there the fairy land of their youthful dreams.