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| - Peter Duck is an elderly seaman who began sailing .... fifty, sixty, or maybe seventy years ago. 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. 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). Peter Duck is a calm individual who is not really interested in treasure-hunting. He acts as a curb to Captain Flint's enthusiasm and provides essential adult supervision of the children.
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| - Peter Duck is an elderly seaman who began sailing .... fifty, sixty, or maybe seventy years ago. 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. 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 retired to own and captain the wherry the Arrow of Norwich on the Norfolk rivers; between Norwich, Lowestoft, Yarmouth and Beccles. 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). Peter Duck's tale of being shipwrecked This is the place ... 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. This inspired the notorious Black Jake to search unsuccessfully for the treasure and keep pestering Mr Duck for more information. When Black Jake sees Wild Cat setting sail with Mr Duck aboard, he is convinced that Captain Flint has persuaded him to to lead them to the treasure on Crab Island. At the end of Peter Duck, Bill visits Mr Duck's three daughters, who had all married farmers. Bill decides that he likes the one in Beccles best (she is not named), and settles down there, where he gets a bit of schooling and goes away with Peter Duck in his wherry when he could (PD36). The other two daughters are Annie at Acle and Rose at Potter Heigham. Peter Duck says he has three ports of call, where I can tie up my old wherry, and have a pipe by the fireside. When Roger asks And which of them do you like the best? he replies that if he is at Potter Heigham and it is a north wind, a good wind for Acle, he likes Annie the best. I see said Roger, and he really did a little later when Peggy had explained it to him (PD6). Peter Duch left Lowestoft to go to sea when he was no bigger than this ship's boy that keeps wanting to crowd on topsails before my anchor's fair out of the ground. He does not return home for many a year after when he was a man, and not so young neither and when he does there were none of my own folk ... They were all gone. But he met a young woman there, clipper built you might say, with a fine figurehead to her, well found too, and her dad kept a marine store. They got married, though he puts to sea again, coming home when he could, and she lived with her old dad in the marine store. His wife is now dead (PD5,6). Peter Duck is a calm individual who is not really interested in treasure-hunting. He acts as a curb to Captain Flint's enthusiasm and provides essential adult supervision of the children.
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