Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London

After breakfast, again on deck, in Mr. Mellaire's watch, I discovered
another efficient. He was at the wheel, a small, well-knit, muscular
man of say forty-five, with black hair graying on the temples, a big
eagle-face, swarthy, with keen, intelligent black eyes.

Mr. Mellaire vindicated my judgment by telling me the man was the
best sailor in his watch, a proper seaman. When he referred to the
man as the Maltese Cockney, and I asked why, he replied: