![]() ![]() This inspired the notorious Black Jake to search unsuccessfully for the treasure and keep pestering Mr Duck for more information. sixty good years ago ( PD21) and watching two men bury a mysterious box on the deserted Crab Island has led to much speculation about treasure. Peter Duck's tale of being shipwrecked This is the place. He was an old sailor with a fringe of white beard round a face that was as brown and wrinkled as a walnut, or a grey beard.( PD1,7). He joined Captain Flint and the Swallows and Amazons on their schooner Wild Cat as an able seaman and acting bosun, for another voyage (to sea) before it was too late ( PD1,3). He retired to own and captain the wherry the Arrow of Norwich on the Norfolk rivers between Norwich, Lowestoft, Yarmouth and Beccles. He tells Bill how he had both arms broken at once when he had been carried off his feet and thrown into the scuppers by a green sea coming aboard ( PD35). He had been round the Horn again and again and knew it, as he used to say, as well as he knew the crook of his own thumb ( PD1). He has sailed on many ships, including clipper ships with tea from China (including the Thermoplyae), wool ships from Australia and his own wherry in Norfolk. ![]() ![]() fifty, sixty, or maybe seventy years ago. Peter Duck is an elderly seaman who began sailing. This is to avoid confusion with the book of the same name. ![]() Arthur Ransome Wiki usually refers to Peter Duck as Mr Duck. ![]()
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