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Updated: June 17, 2025
I am introduced to the quarter-deck and first lieutenant, who pronounces me very clever Trotted below to Mrs Trotter Connubial bliss in a cock-pit Mr Trotter takes me in as a mess-mate Feel very much surprised that so many people know that I am the son of my father. On our arrival on board, the coxswain gave a note from the captain to the first lieutenant, who happened to be on deck.
Here we beheld a kind of cock-pit, around which a great many people, seeming of all ranks, but chiefly of the lower, were gathered, and in it we saw a dog destroy a great many rats in a very small period; and when the dog had destroyed the rats, we saw a fight between a dog and a bear, then a fight between two dogs, then . . .
The sailors' mess-chests are tumbled down into the hold; and the hospital cots of which all men-of-war carry a large supply are dragged forth from the sail-room, and piled near at hand to receive the wounded; amputation-tables are ranged in the cock-pit or in the tiers, whereon to carve the bodies of the maimed.
He raised something that looked like a bag in his right hand, calling out "catch" as he did so; and, a moment after, before a word could be spoken, he took a flying leap and landed amongst us, plump in the cock-pit, and was clutching first one of us and then the other, to keep his balance.
From this place, one passes into the arena or rueda, as it is called. The floor, inclosed by bamboos, is generally elevated higher than the floor of the other two parts of the cock-pit. Running up from the floor and almost touching the roof, are rows of seats for the spectators or gamblers they come to be the same.
Down in the cock-pit the surgeons spread out upon their tables the gleaming instruments, which made brave men shudder with the thought of what a few minutes would bring. The sailors prepared for the fight gayly, never doubting for a moment that victory would be on their side.
Its rear is badly exposed: its field of visibility is very limited at the sides, and objects can be seen only above and below, below, minus the dead angle of the motor and the cock-pit. The pilot can easily lose sight of the airplanes in his own group or that of the enemy, so that if he is alone, he is in danger of being surprised.
"There is a battery at Cock-pit Point, firing, and the smoke of the guns drifts across the low-hanging sun. It must be only a salute, for our fleet of transports moves on, torrents of black smoke pouring out of every tall funnel, paddle-wheels churning steadily.
'Don't kneel in that, sir, says I, 'your white breeches and all. 'Ah, dear fellow! says he, taking my hand, 'dear fellow! dear fellow!... Then they carried me off to the cock-pit." That was the whole story, but it was so simply told that the boy saw and felt it all. "Yes, sir. There warn't a man aboard the Agamemnon but'd ha died for Captain Nelson and proud too."
A course was then shaped for Plymouth Sound. As soon as Jack was able to go below, he inquired anxiously for Smedley. He had been carried to the cock-pit. Jack went there. It was the first time he had ever entered that place of horrors, and his heart sank, and he almost fainted at the sickly odour which reached him. As he approached it, cries and groans reached his ears.
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