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2 GOA AND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS.
description of the article in question. We have
lost ou redition of "The Ship," and to own hum-
bling truth, though we have spent many a weary
month on the world of waters, we never could
master the intricacies of blocks and braces, sky-
lights and deadlights, starboards and larboards.
But if we are to believe the general voice of the
amphibious race, we terrestrial animals never fail
to mangle the science of seamanship most barba-
rously. So we will not expose ourselves by preten-
sion to the animadversions of any small nautical
critic, but boldly talk of going " up-stairs" instead
of " on deck," and unblushingly allude to the
"behind" for the "aft" and the "front" instead
of the " fore" of our conveyance.
But the Pattimar—
Be suite: you shall pourtray it from our descrip-
tion. Sketch a very long boat, very high behind,
and very low before, composed of innumerable bits
of wood tied together with coir, or cocoanut rope,
fitted up with a dark and musty little cabin, and
supplied with two or three long poles intended as
masts, which lean forward as if about to sink under
the weight of the huge lateen sail. Fill up the
outline with a penthouse of cadjans (as the leaves
of that eternal cocoanut tree are called) to protect
description of the article in question. We have
lost ou redition of "The Ship," and to own hum-
bling truth, though we have spent many a weary
month on the world of waters, we never could
master the intricacies of blocks and braces, sky-
lights and deadlights, starboards and larboards.
But if we are to believe the general voice of the
amphibious race, we terrestrial animals never fail
to mangle the science of seamanship most barba-
rously. So we will not expose ourselves by preten-
sion to the animadversions of any small nautical
critic, but boldly talk of going " up-stairs" instead
of " on deck," and unblushingly allude to the
"behind" for the "aft" and the "front" instead
of the " fore" of our conveyance.
But the Pattimar—
Be suite: you shall pourtray it from our descrip-
tion. Sketch a very long boat, very high behind,
and very low before, composed of innumerable bits
of wood tied together with coir, or cocoanut rope,
fitted up with a dark and musty little cabin, and
supplied with two or three long poles intended as
masts, which lean forward as if about to sink under
the weight of the huge lateen sail. Fill up the
outline with a penthouse of cadjans (as the leaves
of that eternal cocoanut tree are called) to protect