Two Men of Taunton in the Course of Human Events 1731 1829
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For several weeks he visited the wharves and searched the "News-Letter" and "Post "for a seaworthy ves sel. At length, he heard of a sloop of thirty tons, the Hannah, which he chartered at twenty pounds a month. After scraping her bottom, tar ring the ropes, salting the mast, and filling the lazaretto with lobscouse, hard-tack, "tongues and sounds, " "salt hoss, " and other delicacies of a sailor s "whack, " Cap n Paine secured an "Al- gerine Pass"; piped all hands on deck; asked a blessing on ...the trip, and weighed anchor for Caro lina carrying a load of brick, meal, ropes, and pottery. He took along his father s negro slave, "London, " whom he afterwards sold, for he was bent on business and had no scruple against the traffic in "human cattle. " A sloop does not require so large a crew as a schooner; but there is more strain on the mast, which gave excitement during the voyage and compelled a sharp eye for weather changes. [ Two Men of Taunton Thirty days after leaving Carolina, he sighted "phyall Light.
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