Sir Arthur Conan Doyle/ The Sign of Four ]
Late in this adventure novel occurs the following:
One man sat by the stern, with something black between his knees over which he stooped. Beside
him lay a dark mass which looked like a Newfoundland dog.
That "dark mass" turns out to be "a little black man — the smallest I have ever seen — with a great,
misshapen head and a shock of tangled, dishevelled hair."