Outing . ants were beginning to build theirspacious and gabled mansions. Theircounting-houses overlooked the harbor,and their spy-glasses were alert to sweepthe distant sea line for the home-comingof their ventures to Virginia, the WestIndies and Europe. Their vessels were ofno more than forty and sixty tons burden,mere cockle-shells for deep-water voyag-ing, but they risked storm and capturewhile they pushed farther and fartheraway from Salem as the prospect of profit-able trade lured them on. The sail-maker, the rigger, the ship-chandler and the ship-wright had begunto populate the harbor-fr
Outing . ants were beginning to build theirspacious and gabled mansions. Theircounting-houses overlooked the harbor,and their spy-glasses were alert to sweepthe distant sea line for the home-comingof their ventures to Virginia, the WestIndies and Europe. Their vessels were ofno more than forty and sixty tons burden,mere cockle-shells for deep-water voyag-ing, but they risked storm and capturewhile they pushed farther and fartheraway from Salem as the prospect of profit-able trade lured them on. The sail-maker, the rigger, the ship-chandler and the ship-wright had begunto populate the harbor-front, and amongthem swarmed the rough and headlongseamen from Heaven knew where, whoshocked the godly Puritans of the olderregime. Jack ashore was a bull in a chinashop then as now, and history has recorded £ 0 S/ /6 - J i • ?• -• ~J«?i -11 ?if ffi $V (ih£?Z-/JlJe^ \ ft ii &*» ?&/ ^.y- // //it I 5 A I dSLJ if9i€\ddM/ J,? A;,:^* 4± W& 1 { ? Jbfr /*— f, i Ii I \ J /,... A r. Page from the illustrated log of the Eolus. Her captain drew such pictures as these of the ships he sighted at sea.
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