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around the horn. In the days of the tall ships any sailor who had sailed around Cape Horn was entitled to spit to windward; otherwise, it was a serious infraction of nautical rules of con- duct. Thus, the permissible practice of spitting to windward was called around the horn. Cape Horn isn’t so named because it is shaped like a horn. Captain Schouten, the Dutch navigator who first rounded it in 1616, named it after Hoorn, his birth- place in northern Holland. |