25 143 153 a piled ridge amidships long pile ^ of spare spars ^ between foremast & mainmast
and among which
where the
ship's largest boat, the launch, was
stowed . , temporarily inverted for repairs,
its broad bottom looming up in
the night like a vague dome. He ^ Alongside of three other
slumberers from below, he
lay
near one
that end of
^ the ^ booms' foreward end of the booms, which approaches
not far from ^ which not far from the foremast; his station
aloft on duty as a foretopman being right just
over the deck- quarte station of the
forecastlemen, entitled entitling him according
to usage to make himself ^ more especially more or less
at home in that neighborhood.
25 143 153 a piled ridge amidships long pile ^ of spare spars ^ between foremast & mainmast
and among which
where the
ship's largest boat, the launch, was
stowed . , temporarily inverted for repairs,
its broad bottom looming up in
the night like a vague dome. He ^ Alongside of three other
slumberers from below, he
lay
near one
that end of
^ the ^ booms' foreward end of the booms, which approaches
not far from ^ which not far from the foremast; his station
aloft on duty as a foretopman being right just
over the deck- quarte station of the
forecastlemen, entitled entitling him according
to usage to make himself ^ more especially more or less
at home in that neighborhood.

Transcribed by: John Bryant