Wow! Another book I haven't read in years! But Wolf Larsen was the only captain I could think of that smoked a cigar, and who fit that description.
OK:
"Now, that bird is, maybe, two hundred years old, Hawkins--they live forever mostly; and if anybody's seen more wickedness, it must be the devil himself. She's sailed with England, the great Cap'n England, the pirate."
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