mattter

Updated: May 1, 2025

As the mattter was subsequently explained in the official account, that ship's lower masts were badly wounded before she sent up the new top-masts, and, receiving some further injuries, stick began to come down after stick, until nothing was left of all her hamper, but three stumps of lower masts, the highest less than twenty feet above the deck.

James Fenimore Cooper - Miles Wallingford: Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"