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At each fide of this dark abode was a 

 fixed fleeping birth which was narrow, fhort, 

 and dirty. The centre was filled with barrels, 

 tubs, old fea chefts, greafy coffers, and other 

 lumber. At one end flood a tub of {linking 

 fait meat ; at the other, one with rotten po- 

 tatoes, and pots of rancid butter. The cabin 

 was the general receptacle — the ftore-houfe, 

 cellar, pantry, and larder of the fliip. Under 

 the births, faluting the nofes of thofe lying in 

 them, were filthy worm-eaten chefts, filled 

 with dirty long-worn apparel, and other high- 

 effenced contents. One was fet apart for 

 unwafhed knives and forks, dirty plates, ba- 

 fons, and difhes ; another for the odorous 

 remains of yefterday's dinner. In one corner 

 flood a bag of mufty bifcuit — -in another hung 

 an old greafe-thickened lantern. Hand- 

 fpikes, marline- fpikes, dirty fwabs, a broken, 

 mouldy cafe with a compafs — an old worm- 

 eaten ditto with a quadrant, two or three broken 

 fifhing lines, a battered old fpeaking trumpet, 

 and a variety of other implements, hung, or 

 ftrewed about, added to the furniture of the 

 apartment. 



But worft pf all were the poifonous old 



