beneath our own flag (ashcan)

Dear Mother, I write to you with news. I do not know If or When my former Epistles have reached you, or in what Status, or at what Cost, but I must presume for the sake of time that they have and that you are well acquainted with the saga of my Mistreatment upon the sea, of the tyranny we received at the Hands of our Bound Captain, Sir W. Jack Koel. No Longer. Mother, We have done It. We Hav…