bough-tops

Updated: May 23, 2025

A few bough-tops served to keep them off the damp ground, and on these as many as could find room lay down to sleep, while the rest sat up keeping watch over the fire. Peter Patch finding the flag, which had been hauled down at sunset, wrapped himself up in it a fortunate circumstance, as it afterwards proved, although the midshipman's object was of a purely self-interested nature.

William Henry Giles Kingston - The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader: And what befell their Passengers and Crews.