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Updated: May 11, 2025
Against the wall opposite the door stood a heavy mahogany table; beside it, a deep-bottomed chair, in which the priest now sat down. The room was destitute of windows, properly so called.
Steve came back with a memorandum book in which he had kept day by day the history of the voyage. But it was in Dutch, and I could not read it. I made him comfortable in a deep-bottomed rocker, and I jotted down my understanding of the honest sailor's Rotterdam English as he himself translated his ample notes in his native tongue.
He says that according to Babylonian notions the world is a "boat turned upside down." The kind of boat meant is, as Lenormant recognized, the deep-bottomed round skiff with curved edges that is still used for carrying loads across and along the Euphrates and Tigris, the same kind of boat that the compilers of Genesis had in view when describing Noah's Ark.
Louise was thankful for this opportunity for laughter, for that "curiousest-osity" was too much for her sense of the ludicrous. Like almost every other man of any age that Louise had met about Cardhaven save Cap'n Abe himself Washy had spent a good share of his life in deep-bottomed craft. But he had never risen higher than petty officer.
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