upper-top-sails

Updated: May 22, 2025

Along the coast the blue sea appeared to be covered with a veil or mist of grass green colour, the green of a duck pond; beyond it the coast was distinct, distant I should say about eighteen miles. We could see upper-top-sails and the peaks of lateen sails beyond the flat bank of green, which seemed to begin a few miles from the shore and spread over the sea's surface several miles west and east.

W. G. (William Gordon) Burn Murdoch - From Edinburgh to India & Burmah