The expression, “Ho has gone' to Davy Jones’s locker,*’ - simply means that ho has gone to the bottpm of. tho sea. It means tho receptacle or chest of tho spirit of the prophet Jonah. “Jones” is tho sailors’ corruption of “ Jonah.” “ Davy ” is said to come from the West India Negro’s word “ duffy,” mfeaning devil or evil spirit. “ Davy .Tones ” is simply “ Duffy ” or “ Devil Jonah.” Ho is tho evil spirit of the sen, just as Neptune is the God of the Sea. A “ locker,” in sailors’ parlance, means any receptacle, largo, or small, in which * private stores are kept. Experiments ‘have proved that wireless can bo heard in a mine 3,000 ft below the surface of the ground, and to considerable depths in water.
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Evening Star, Issue 20778, 28 April 1931, Page 4
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