breaff

Updated: May 25, 2025

We cry and shout till all breaff gone, and den lie quiet and moan, till jus' when ebery one tink he dead, dey take off de hatch and come down and undo de padlocks and tell us to go up on deck. Dat berry easy to say, not at all easy to do. Most of us too weak to walk, and say dat we dead and cannot move.

G. A. (George Alfred) Henty - By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War