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Salty BollixI don't know how these here errors got in. I swear I was sitting on my front porch, minding my own bidness, reading the Bible, when some guy come along and messed everything up.
No Quarter
It has come to my attention that the entire first run of No Quarter was printed upside down (see above). One copy at least was mistakenly titled No Quakers as well (ditto). The War of Knives
There are two chapter thirteens. Or two chapters thirteen, whatever. The one that begins on page 178 should be chapter fourteen, and so on. I blame it on sunspots. Quartermaster's Mate David Brodie seems to have been promoted to quartermaster between page 18, when we first meet him, and page 277, when Matty sees him at the helm of the Rattle-Snake during the fight with the Faucon. I had been killed until I was dead at the time. Sorry. Peter Wicked Retired Navy officer, historian, and apparently first-time reader "Timonier" writes to inform me that I've screwed up in numerous places, which was my big clue that he is a first-time reader. Turns out that the U.S. Navy didn't use three-pounder long guns, though he supposes maybe someone used some swivels of that caliber. Also he thinks the Tomahawk's accommodations are "positively luxurious," among other quibbles. I would point out that she is a converted merchantman, not a man-of-war, but it would be churlish to argue with a guy who counts Christopher McKee and John Harland as cronies and knows more than I do anyway. Besides which, he's "still in Chapter Nine," which I take to mean he hasn't finished with me yet. |
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