The Two Supercargoes; Adventures in Savage Africa, by W.H.G. Kingston.
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This is rather a standard Kingston book, with adventures this time
shore-based in Africa, which, at the time of the story, the early
nineteenth century, was largely unknown. The two young men sail as
supercargoes, a post which at that time existed, but which later was to
be known a ship's clerk. The job of a supercargo was to be in charge of
where in the vessel each item of cargo was stored, so that on arrival at
its destination it could be quickly and easily found. Of course in
those days, as fifty years ago, items of cargo were individual small
objects, sometimes stowed on pallets, but mostly in casks. A pallet or
a cask would be an individual item.
It wasn't very easy to read this text due to a slightly heavy typeface,
so there may be a few errors, but not, we hope, over the 99.95% odds.
Probably best for that reason as an audiobook.
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