This print is one of ten illustrations in 'Songs of the Late Charles Dibdin' (with some others) collected by his son Thomas Dibdin (John Murray, London, 1841) f. p.76. A naval sailor in straw hat and striped jersey stands on on a tropical shoreline, with palms and a British ship's boat under sail behind. He is gently rejecting the advances of a large dark-skinned and apparently bearded woman with a top-knot. She wears a Western-style short frock and cross-gartered pumps (both of the contemporary ballet-style), with a string of beads or pearls round her neck and rings in her ears and nose. The related song of the same title, facing, is on the theme of the sailor with 'a wife in each port' and the man shown resisting them all, having sworn fidelity to his 'Poll' at home. Here he is declining the attentions of what the relevant verse calls a 'squaw out at India... a dear pretty monster... so kind and so fond'. Both image and the related elements in the song are good examples of how the normal humour of one era can become offensive to a later one, since racist by modern standards. For a full list of the plates see PAJ1820 (the first). [PvdM 1/18]