lug-mast

Updated: May 24, 2025

In one of the smacks an elderly fisher was kneeling in a forward sprawling pose, clasping the lug-mast with his arms, the two knees wide apart, head thrown back, and the yellow eye-balls with their islands of grey iris staring straight up the mast-pole.

M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel - The Purple Cloud