"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea

PART I

The first man to climb the _Almena's_ side-ladder from the tug was the shipping-master, and after him came the crew he had shipped. They clustered at the rail, looking around and aloft with muttered profane comments, one to the other, while the shipping-master approached a gray-eyed giant who stood with a shorter but broader man at the poop-deck steps.

"Mr. Ja...