He retreated in good order towards the rising sun, and the fact followed him casually but inevitably.

Thus in the course of years he was known successively in Bombay, in Calcutta, in Rangoon, in Penang, in Batavia--and in each of these halting-places was just Jim the water-clerk.

Afterwards, when his keen perception of the Intolerable drove him away for good from seaports and white men, even into the virgin forest, the Malays of the jungle village, where he had elected to conceal his deplorable faculty, added a word to the monosyllable of his incognito.

They called him Tuan Jim: as one might say--Lord Jim.
Originally he came from a parsonage.

Many commanders of fine merchant-ships come from these abodes of piety and peace.