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So she depended on basket-chairs, screens, brackets and drapery to enliven the ancient mahagony and rosewood, and she had accumulated a good many water colours, vases and knick-knacks.
The first view of the beef would excite an idea of veneration for its antiquity, * its color was a dark mahagony, and its solidity would have set the keenest edge of a broad axe at defiance to cut across the grain, though like oakum it could be pulled to pieces, one way, in strings, like rope yarn. * It was so completely saturated with salt that after having been boiled in water taken from the sea, it was found to be considerably freshened by the process. * Such was our food, but the quality was not all of which we had to complain. * The cooking was done in a great copper vessel. * The Jersey, from her size, and lying near the shore, was embedded in the mud, and I don't recollect seeing her afloat the whole time I was a prisoner.
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