No problem. I haven't been commenting that much either and -- I just found thi swhile digging through the Pellew family homepage.

There was much of the martinet in Edward Pellew as a young man. It was a family characteristic. His brother Israel was once put ashore by a mutinous crew, and his son Fleetwood goaded two ships into mutiny and was forced in consequence to leave the Service. In Edward the similar strictness was qualified by exceptional ability.

*is experiencing death by hilarity this afternon or something*