The merchant vessel : a sailor boy's voyages around the world . d of us, on the shore, lay asalt hill, as high as our masthead, part of wThich was to be ourcargo. The first thins: to be done was to take out ballast. Thislasted three days. It was dumped overboard alongside, weslacking out cable, once in awhile, in order that the bouldersand sand should not fall all in one place, and make an in-convenient little shoal. The ballast out and the hold swept clean, the salt camealongside. It was brought from shore in large surf-boats,by the slaves. When a boat came alongside, the bags werethrown upon
The merchant vessel : a sailor boy's voyages around the world . d of us, on the shore, lay asalt hill, as high as our masthead, part of wThich was to be ourcargo. The first thins: to be done was to take out ballast. Thislasted three days. It was dumped overboard alongside, weslacking out cable, once in awhile, in order that the bouldersand sand should not fall all in one place, and make an in-convenient little shoal. The ballast out and the hold swept clean, the salt camealongside. It was brought from shore in large surf-boats,by the slaves. When a boat came alongside, the bags werethrown upon a stage, from the stage to the deck, then a tossto the main-hatchwTay, where stood one with a jack-knife, to cutthe string, empty the contents into the hold, and fling thesack back into the boat. In this way we speedily got in asmuch as the bark would carry. The worst of the labor was thetrimming, in the hold, and the carrying sacks forward and aftto the hatches, there to be emptied. Working among salt isapt to produce sores upon the body. We had been warned.
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