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Updated: May 20, 2025
All sorts of tubs, buckets, kegs, and open casks, including the scuttle butt, were ranged along the spar-deck, below the break of the poop, to catch the welcome shower, tarpaulins being spread over the open hatchways, where exposed, to prevent the flood from going below: while the ends of the after awning were tied up in a sort of huge bag for the rain to drain off into it, so that none of it might be wasted the canvas being let down, when the receptacle was pretty full, to empty the contents into the water-puncheons for the pure liquid was a precious godsend, being an agreeable relief to the brackish supply which the ship carried in her tanks.
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