from a homeward-bound English
merchantman into a seventy-four
outward-bound, H.M.S. Indomitable ;
that king's- which ship, as was not unusual
in those hurried days having been
obliged to put to sea short of her
proper complement of men. Plump
upon Billy at first sight in the gangway the
boarding officer Lieutenant Ratcliffe pounced,
even before the merchantman's
crew was formally mustered on the
quarter-deck for his more deliberate inspection.
And Him only he elected. For whether
it was because the other men
when ranged before him showed to
merchantman into a seventy-four
outward-bound, H.M.S. Indomitable ;
that king's- which ship, as was not unusual
in those hurried days having been
obliged to put to sea short of her
proper complement of men. Plump
upon Billy at first sight in the gangway the
boarding officer Lieutenant Ratcliffe pounced,
even before the merchantman's
crew was formally mustered on the
quarter-deck for his more deliberate inspection.
And Him only he elected. For whether
it was because the other men
when ranged before him showed to
from a homeward-bound English
merchantman into a seventy-four
outward-bound, H.M.S. Indomitable ;
that king's- which ship, as was not unusual
in those hurried days having been
obliged to put to sea short of her
proper complement of men. Plump
upon Billy at first sight in the gangway the
boarding officer Lieutenant Ratcliffe pounced,
even before the merchantman's
crew was formally mustered on the
quarter-deck for his more deliberate inspection.
And Him only he elected. For whether
it was because the other men
when ranged before him showed to
merchantman into a seventy-four
outward-bound, H.M.S. Indomitable ;
that king's- which ship, as was not unusual
in those hurried days having been
obliged to put to sea short of her
proper complement of men. Plump
upon Billy at first sight in the gangway the
boarding officer Lieutenant Ratcliffe pounced,
even before the merchantman's
crew was formally mustered on the
quarter-deck for his more deliberate inspection.
And Him only he elected. For whether
it was because the other men
when ranged before him showed to
Transcribed by: John Bryant