Joseph Conrad: Nostromo

PART FIRST: THE SILVER OF THE MINE
5. CHAPTER FIVE (continued)

This camp-master was the Italian sailor whom all the Europeans in
Sulaco, following Captain Mitchell's mispronunciation, were in
the habit of calling Nostromo. And indeed, taciturn and ready,
he did take excellent care of his charge at the bad parts of the
road, as Sir John himself acknowledged to Mrs. Gould afterwards.

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