119 97 109 / He was an Agamemnon -man; Some two years prior to the time
of this story he having had served under
Nelson when but Sir Horatio still captainHS in the that
old Agamemnon , a ship immortal
in navy naval memory, and which dismantled
and in part broken up to her bare ribs
is seen a grand skeleton in Hayden's
etching. As one of a boarding-party
from the Agamemnon he had received
a cut slantwise along one temple
and cheek leaving a long pale scar
like a flash of ^ streak of dawn's br light xxx falling athwart across the gunpowder
dark visage. It was on account of that scar
and the ^ desperate affair in which it was
known that he had recieved it, ^ as well as from his
blue-peppered complexion
that
the Dansker he ^ went among the Indomitable's
crew by the name of " Board-her-in-
-the smoke. "
119 97 109 / He was an Agamemnon -man; Some two years prior to the time
of this story he having had served under
Nelson when but Sir Horatio still captainHS in the that
old Agamemnon , a ship immortal
in navy naval memory, and which dismantled
and in part broken up to her bare ribs
is seen a grand skeleton in Hayden's
etching. As one of a boarding-party
from the Agamemnon he had received
a cut slantwise along one temple
and cheek leaving a long pale scar
like a flash of ^ streak of dawn's br light xxx falling athwart across the gunpowder
dark visage. It was on account of that scar
and the ^ desperate affair in which it was
known that he had recieved it, ^ as well as from his
blue-peppered complexion
that
the Dansker he ^ went among the Indomitable's
crew by the name of " Board-her-in-
-the smoke. "

Transcribed by: John Bryant