A Hog-Eye was distinctive flat-bottom boat or barge used in the shallow waters surrounding San Francisco Bay during the California Gold Rush, named from the dismissive name 'ditch-hog' applied to rivermen by deep-water sailors. The term "hog-eye" was used in early blues songs as a euphemism for the female genitalia.
he was a fellow who enjoyed female gentilia on a flat bottmed barge. So it takes all sorts, relatively harmless