text:  Still less perhaps would they have expected the future Bronte a few months later in the person of a little fellow no longer a midshipman in the Royal Navy but a working "youngster" on board a West India ship as he informs us in his "Sketch of my Life " belonging to the house of Hibbert Purrier and Horton from which he returned to the Triumph at Chatham a good practical seaman but with a horror of the Royal Navy and a firm belief in a saying then constant with the seamen "Aft the most honour forward the better man