Many Cargoes

Many Cargoes is a collection of tales by W. W. Jacobs, best remembered as the author of the classic horror story "e;The Monkey's Paw."e; Like many of the stories and novels Jacobs would pen over the course of his literary career, these humorous tales are mostly about sailors, their wily attempts to trick and bamboozle their colleagues, and their misadventures onshore and offshore.