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Updated: May 24, 2025
The tarpawling and lumber forward had disappeared, and there lay long Tom ready levelled, grinning on his pivot. The ropes were all coiled away, and laid down in regular man of war fashion; while an ugly gruff beast of a Spanish mulatto, apparently the officer of the watch, walked the weather side of the quarter deck, in the true pendulum style.
There was a long shed in the centre of this cleared spot, covered in with boards, and thatched with palm leaves; it was open below, a sort of capstan house, where a vast quantity of sails, anchors, cordage, and most kinds of sea stores were stowed, carefully covered over with tarpawling.
There was a tarpawling stretched over a quantity of rubbish, old sails, old junk, and hencoops rather ostentatiously piled up forward, which we conjectured might conceal a long gun. She was a very taught rigged hermaphrodite, or brig forward and schooner aft.
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