290 300 On the starboard side of the ^ Indomitable 's upper
gun-deck, behold Billy Budd under
sentry lying prone in irons in one of the
bays formed by everty every every two guns
by the regular spaceing of the guns ^ pieces
comprising the batteries on either side.
63 All these pieces, now obsolete were of were of
the heavier calibre of that period , . Mounted
on lumbering wooden carriges they were
hampered with cumbersome harness
of breechen and strong side-tackles
for running them out. Guns and carriages,
together with the long rammers and
^ shorter lintstocks lodged in loops overhead—
all these, as customary, were painted
black; and the heavy hempen breechens
tarred to the same tint, wore the same like
290 300 On the starboard side of the ^ Indomitable 's upper
gun-deck, behold Billy Budd under
sentry lying prone in irons in one of the
bays formed by everty every every two guns
by the regular spaceing of the guns ^ pieces
comprising the batteries on either side.
63 All these pieces, now obsolete were of were of
the heavier calibre of that period , . Mounted
on lumbering wooden carriges they were
hampered with cumbersome harness
of breechen and strong side-tackles
for running them out. Guns and carriages,
together with the long rammers and
^ shorter lintstocks lodged in loops overhead—
all these, as customary, were painted
black; and the heavy hempen breechens
tarred to the same tint, wore the same like

Transcribed by: Christopher Ohge