Patrick O' Brian describes the easy mind of captain Jack Aubrey in The Far Side Of The World:
It seemed a fairly straightforward assignment, particularly as he had an unusually well qualified political adviser in his surgeon Dr Maturin, and off the mouth of Zambra Bay he left the Pollux with an easy mind, or at least with a mind as easy as was right in one who had spent most of his life in the sea, that dangerous, utterly unreliable element, with nothing but a plank between him and eternity.
It seemed a fairly straightforward assignment, particularly as he had an unusually well qualified political adviser in his surgeon Dr Maturin, and off the mouth of Zambra Bay he left the Pollux with an easy mind, or at least with a mind as easy as was right in one who had spent most of his life in the sea, that dangerous, utterly unreliable element, with nothing but a plank between him and eternity.
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