In 1811 William Robinson.

In 1811 William Robinson, a purser's steward in the royal navy, untilleded having served six long and brutal years at sea. Years later, he wrote his memoirs, beneath the colorful title of Jack Nastyface. In it he recorded the many indignities inflicted upon the sailors of his day. He did in this way in terms designed to horrify polite men and women toward which cessation he dwelled at considerable long duration on floggings, keel-haulings, and the like. He was, however, exquisitely prepared to tolerate the indignities that sailors inflicted upon a group even more marginal than themselves: the hebrews who made an ...

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