Oaklet: "a mysterious tall Brazilian man once told me on a stormy night at sea on a Baltic onion-freighter in an old felt hat during the early '70s."

Foolstroupe said: I've never seen a Baltic onion-freighter in an old felt hat!

brucie: I've too have never seen an onion in a felt hat in the old Baltic.

Gentlemen and lady, I too have been parsing the sentence. Talk about mysterious! But there is a grand cadence to it.