See Matelot.
L'Ollonais explains to Pym that each buccaneer has a chosen comrade and lifelong friend called a matelot and that, if the buccaneer is killed in an attack, then the matelot gets his share of the plunder.
-John Sanders, The Hat Of Authority (London, 1966), 6, "Matelot's End," p. 72.
If we read Poul Anderson's Technic History in the original order, beginning with Trader To The Stars, then the first thing that we read is Le Matelot quoting Shelley.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I remember the Le Matelot "quotation," but not that "matelot" referred to something real from history.
Ad astra! Sean
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