High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Captain Jat is a fictional sea captain created by English writer William Hope Hodgson. Captain Jat was another attempt to create a recurring character, like Hodgson`s Captain Gault. Captain Jat is featured in the stories "The Island of the Ud" and "The Adventure of the Headland". Captain Jat himself is a tall, lean man, interested primarily in "treasure and women," who takes cabin boy Pibby Tawles into his confidence. In "The Island of the Ud" their relationship is described as follows: