Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London

"Which I am," he retorted proudly, "an' a better man at that than the
scrubby younglings of these days. A generation of 'em would die
under the things I've been through. Did you ever hear of the Sunny
South?--she that was sold in Havana to run slaves an' changed her
name to Emanuela?"

"And you've sailed the Middle Passage!" I cried, recollecting the old
phrase.