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(see roller in front) ; and then refix the two fore pieces. 

 Put some hay-bands under your gun, lash every thing on 

 with a cart line, and you are then in marching order, for any 

 part of the M r orld. 



5. " Truck," for shipping gun; and conveying ashore that and 



the gear, birds, &c. 



6. Perspective view of the punt, which we will now overhaul from 



stern to stem. 



N.B. Thin copper at each end, in order to cut through the ice. 

 [This proved invaluable last winter /] One skulling-crotch shipped; 

 the other stowed away, in the case, on deck. These should be made 

 fast with a piece of string ; or, being of copper, they would sink, if 

 they fell overboard. Starboard " trap-hatch," unshipped, for skulling 

 or setting. This should be stowed away under the side-deck ; but 

 I have here thrown it overboard, in order to show it. " Cleats ;" to 

 " make fast" sheet. Drawer for u cripple-stopping" ammunition. 

 The moment the gunner has made a shot, he should " douse back 

 stock," " up stem-piece," " on lock-cover," out with his little double 

 gun, from the canvas curtain on the starboard side, and get " right 

 aft" as quick as possible, and pop away at the cripples, while the 

 skipper rows the punt in chase of them. [N.B. Sling this gun so 

 that if it went off it could not injure you or your punt.] The next 

 drawer is for the small articles belonging to the large gun. These 

 drawers should have just over them a small ledge, inside the bul- 

 warks, or the wet will keep dribbling into them. They should be 

 marked with black stripes, or you will have some plague in seeing 

 where to ship them by night. The little marks round the outsides 

 of the bulwarks are meant for the brass studs to which is buttoned 

 on the " Esquimaux" cover. The " stem-piece," (or support for 

 chest, when lying to gun), mudboards, covers, cartridge-box, setting- 

 pole (or " sprit" for sail), loading-rod, sail, and ring-nosed ramrod 

 (or cleaning-rod), conclude all the " traps" that it may be necessary 

 to show ; and then all you require is a few years' practice, in order 

 to make a good use of them. 



N.B. In the original plate I did not put those men which are in 

 the gunning-punt in their proper places for a " cripple chase" 

 because here they have no sea to encounter, and have a dog, and 

 other boats, to help them -, and as this is wholly an explanatory 

 plate, I have left out the men, in order to show better the interior 

 of the punt. 



