Note 67 — VIII. GENERAL MATTERS IN THE PERIOD OF THE FRENCH WARS.
Reading edition
To this day the British bluejacket calls himself a “matlo”—a corruption of the French matelot; so this pigtail introduction theory may be correct enough.
Reading edition
To this day the British bluejacket calls himself a “matlo”—a corruption of the French matelot; so this pigtail introduction theory may be correct enough.