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In addition to these exercises, there was the old `fire quarters' drill, to which I was accustomed; and `man and arm ship, when all of us hurried to our stations on the main-deck batteries those who formed part, that is, of the crews of the several guns of different types we had aboard; while the rest of us lined the sides of the upper deck, prepared to pepper away with our rifles at any approaching foe, and repel, with our sword-bayonets at the `charge, all possible boarders.
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