Under sail . as cleverly laid, clinker fashion likethe clapboards on a house, so that any sweator leak water in the hold would be shed and rundown clear to the bilges without wetting the pre-cious cargo. A cargo of sugar such as was to be carried bythe Fuller was worth at that time in the neighbor-hood of a quarter of a million, and the greatestprecautions were taken to safeguard it. In ad-dition to guarding against wet, all places wherethe sugar bags might, by any chance, come incontact with iron, as the bolt heads in the heavyknees that jutted through the inner lining, werewrapped with extra
Under sail . as cleverly laid, clinker fashion likethe clapboards on a house, so that any sweator leak water in the hold would be shed and rundown clear to the bilges without wetting the pre-cious cargo. A cargo of sugar such as was to be carried bythe Fuller was worth at that time in the neighbor-hood of a quarter of a million, and the greatestprecautions were taken to safeguard it. In ad-dition to guarding against wet, all places wherethe sugar bags might, by any chance, come incontact with iron, as the bolt heads in the heavyknees that jutted through the inner lining, werewrapped with extra thicknesses of gunny this job was completed the lower holdlooked like the inside of a gigantic melon, nicelyhollowed out. There was a clean sweep from the THE MATE KEEPS US BUSY 235 fore peak to the lazarette, only interrupted bythe mainmast and the upright water tank, a sim-ple hold such as was considered safe and properin the days of Columbus and of Drake. The tween decks of the Fuller was rather. WATCHING THE SHOEE WHEN IN THE STREAM fancy. Her voyage previous to the one we wereon had taken her to China and while in Shanghaithe tween decks was scraped bright. The underside of the spar deck, the lining, knees, andwaterways, were all in natural wood and coatedwith a varnish made of shellac and oil. The headsof bolts, and all iron work, had been painted with 236 UNDER SAIL aluminum paint and then varnished. When wefirst noted this it brought forth some caustic com-ment. They do the cargo a damn sight better thanthey do us, remarked Australia. And this wasright and proper. The cargo pays freight andshould be considered, whereas we were a part ofthe expense, to be cut down as low as possibleboth in numbers and wages. Captain Nichols, too, was glad to get awayfrom the wharf and all the annoyances incidentto discharging. The dust and unavoidable dirttracked aboard ship by the people from shorewere a constant vexation to his soul. I have oftenseen the skipper bob up from
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