Talk:Brick (disambiguation)

Brick (sort of boat or ship)
The book Captains Courageous http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/cptcr11a.txt includes this text:
 * "Once I was in the Lucy Holmes," said Manuel, in his gentle voice. "They not want any of her feesh in Gloucester. Eh, wha-at? Give us no price. So we go across the water, and think to sell to some Fayal man. Then it blow fresh, and we cannot see well. Eh, wha-at? Then it blow some more fresh, and we go down below and drive very fast--no one know where. By and by we see a land, and it get some hot. Then come two, three nigger in a brick. Eh, wha-at? We ask where we are, and they say--now, what you all think?"
 * "Grand Canary," said Disko, after a moment. Manuel shook his head, smiling.
 * "Blanco," said Tom Platt.
 * "No. Worse than that. We was below Bezagos, and the brick she was from Liberia! So we sell our feesh there! Not bad, so? Eh, wha-at?"


 * What sort of ship or boat is/was a "brick"? Anthony Appleyard 05:50, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * With only 2 or 3 crew, it can't be a brig. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:18, 9 September 2015 (UTC)