He was a most daring and successful seal and
whale fisher. In 1883 he commanded the steam sealer SEA UNICORN,
of Dundee. He had then had several successful voyages
in succession, and in the following year, 1884, he retired.
After that he travelled for some years, and finally he bought
a small place called Woodman's Lee, near Forest Row, in Sussex.
There he has lived for six years, and there he died just a week
ago to-day.
"There were some most singular points about the man.
In ordinary life he was a strict Puritan -- a silent, gloomy
fellow. His household consisted of his wife, his daughter,
aged twenty, and two female servants. These last were continually
changing, for it was never a very cheery situation, and sometimes
it became past all bearing. The man was an intermittent drunkard,
and when he had the fit on him he was a perfect fiend.
He has been known to drive his wife and his daughter out of doors
in the middle of the night, and flog them through the park until
the whole village outside the gates was aroused by their screams.
"He was summoned once for a savage assault upon the old vicar,
who had called upon him to remonstrate with him upon his
conduct.
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