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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: to see in charge. And yet, there's his record. He lost the
Umbawa--one hundred and forty drowned. He was first officer on the
bridge. Deliberate disobedience to instructions. No wonder they
broke him.
"Christian Young has never had any experience with large boats.
Besides, we can't afford to pay him what he's clearing on the
Minerva. Sparrowhawk is a good man--to take orders. He has no
initiative. He's an able sailor, but he can't command. I tell you
I was nervous all the time he had charge of the Flibberty at
Poonga-Poonga when I had to stay by the Martha."
And so it had gone. No name proposed was satisfactory, and,
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