24 142 152 Not many days——//—— after the last
incident narrated something befell
Billy ^ Budd that more gravelled him that aught
that had previously occurred.
It was a warm night ; ^ for the latitude; and
the Foretopman, whose watch it was below,
should ha at the time was properly below,
was, with dozing on the ^ the uppermost deck whither
he had ascended from his hot hammock
one of hundreds swinging so closely
suspended so closely ^ wedged together ^ over a over the lower gun- deck that
there was little or no swing to them.
He lay as in the shadow as of a hill , -side
stretched under the lee of the booms ,
24 142 152 Not many days——//—— after the last
incident narrated something befell
Billy ^ Budd that more gravelled him that aught
that had previously occurred.
It was a warm night ; ^ for the latitude; and
the Foretopman, whose watch it was below,
should ha at the time was properly below,
was, with dozing on the ^ the uppermost deck whither
he had ascended from his hot hammock
one of hundreds swinging so closely
suspended so closely ^ wedged together ^ over a over the lower gun- deck that
there was little or no swing to them.
He lay as in the shadow as of a hill , -side
stretched under the lee of the booms ,

Transcribed by: John Bryant