Sir Edw Seawards Narrative of His Shipwreck And Consequent Discovery of Certa
Sir Edw Seawards Narrative of His Shipwreck And Consequent Discovery of Certa
Porter Jane
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There were three muskets and six pikes. I drew the charge from the muskets that were loaded, and employed myself till dinner time in cleaning them ; after which, I placed them, one over the other horizontally, on wooden pins, which I fixed in the wainscot; and immediately above them hung up the ship's spy-glass and speaking-trumpet, and then flanked the whole with the boarding -pikes, placed erect. No one but my wife knew where I kept the ammunition ; but it was at hand, if wanted. We thought a...ll these precautions right, although we hoped quite unnecessary. Caution and circumspection, however, are faithful sentinels. My pistols I always wore ready loaded in my belt. While I was arranging the arms, my dear Eliza placed the few books we had in due order; and on a neighbour ing shelf, made a fine display of the shells we had col lected during our residence on the island, from the noble >onch, the monarch of them all, used for a bugle, down to the rice shells, whose extreme smallness and beautiful translucency, and great abundance, elicited from my beloved an exclamation, " What would you give for these, Queen Mab !
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