# Mr. Trood — Sailing Alone Around the World character guide

> Mr. Trood in Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0016-xv

## Who they are

A person met by the narrator in port.

## In the story

### [Seventy-two Days Without a Port](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sailing_alone_around_the_world_se/chapters/xii)

An old Eton boy who came to visit the Spray in Apia, ferried by a young woman in a canoe. He exclaims, 'Was ever king ferried in such state?'

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