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Updated: June 1, 2025
Only when men get together and talk of these things it is whispered that there is no family, however prosperous, but has its unsuccessful members no House, however great, which has not its hangers-on and followers, like the ribauderie of an army, helpless and penniless.
Boat builders had their yards along the bank; mastmakers, sail-makers, rope-makers, block-makers; there were repairing docks dotted about all down the river, each able to hold one ship at a time, like one or two still remaining at Rotherhithe, there were ship-building yards of considerable importance; all these places employed a vast number of workmen carpenters, caulkers, painters, riggers, carvers of figure-heads, block-makers, stevedores, lightermen, watermen, victuallers, tavern-keepers, and all the roguery and ribauderie that always gather round mercantile Jack ashore.
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