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Updated: May 15, 2025
It was an interesting sight, too, to see our noble ship, dismantled of all her top-hamper of long tapering masts and yards, and boom pointed with spear-head, which ornamented her in port; and all that canvas, which a few days before had covered her like a cloud, from the truck to the water's edge, spreading far out beyond her hull on either side, now gone; and she stripped, like a wrestler for the fight.
That lubber Groggy Fox ran into me, cut down my bulwarks, and carried away my bowsprit an' some o' my top-hamper." "Come along have a glass, an' let's hear all about it," said Bryce, seizing his friend's arm; but Lockley held back. "No, Ned," he said; "I'm on another tack just now." "What! not hoisted the blue ribbon, eh!" "No," returned Lockley, with a laugh. "I've no need to do that."
The Vikings, as we have seen, anticipated by centuries some of the finest models of the modern world. The hulls of Cabot, Columbus, and Cartier were broader in the beam, much bluffer in the bow, besides being full of top-hamper on the deck.
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