Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble), 1878-1944 · London : Sidgewick & Jackson, litd · leaf 330
ou would have been notmerely the elongated beak, but the very long bowsprit.The sailors had to creep out along this spar, keepingthemselves, by hanging on to a stay or spreader, fromslipping into the ocean every time the vessel rose orfell to the motion of the waves. It was a pretty wetjob to lay… … IMJ--^- ^1 aO a H ^ THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY neath the bowsprit, and this water-sail had a couple ofround holes—one at either side low down near the foot—^the object being to permit the water, which this lowsail scooped up, to escape. The sheets of this sail ledaft and came on board abaft the fore…
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