MDMD(8) Questions Addendum

[AS Rounce]

On Sat, 13 Sep 1997, Christine Karatnytsky wrote:

> This one slipped by.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 252.13  "the Fleets that Honorable John keeps a-slinging each day round
> the Cape into those prodigious Winds"  Who is Honorable John?
> 
It's shorthand for "John Company", the slang for those dear people
who sent out my ancestors to fleece the natives in the days when there
was still all that pink on the map of the British Empire. (no doubt some
real "honourable John" will appear and contradict me).

Best,

Adam