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.
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
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.
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