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majesty , which reflected worship up to her on her throne ; receiving proudly as her due , as if she asked it not , the homage of earth , sea , and sky . How invitingly beautiful I thought her then ! Reader , she was a hell afloat ! After gazing on her with
such wonder and rapture , I felt a dread , as a whispered allusion was made to one ship which was lying in the Sound ; a dirty looking ,, unfinished , straggling— -frigate they denominated her ; her dingy yellow sides were streaked with seams of pitch ;—and they called her the finest ship of all that were lying there . ' What taste / thought I ; they spoke also of the ' good luck * of those who might be shipped on board of her , as she was yet unmanned , or short of her complement . I'devoutly hoped , happen what might , that would not be the ship to which I should be drafted ,
though she had , as I found , the reputation of being a flier . These meditations were broken by our now near approach to the rocks and houses , in passing through the Devil ' s Bridge ; on each side of which people on the firm shore stood to look at us ; and sadness sunk deep as I felt they were enjoying privileges and blessings from which I was cut off ; they were at liberty to go where they would , to tread the grass and pluck the flowers ; I seemed sunk beneath the common lot of humanity ; though men were around me , from them I was as much an exile as they were from other men : compelled thoughts of the present blocked
up all gaze into the future : and we anchored within two or three hundred yards of an enormous mountain-mass of timber , that I heard spoken of as the Salvador ; and another black looking thing , with which I made acquaintance an hour afterwards . Order came on board for the cargo of live lumber to be shifted to the Razzyloo , and I soon found myself herded with the
miserable mass which the Tender Friendship vomited forth from her foul and pestilent caverns . I—the scoff and derision , now , of that filthy heap of animation . The Resolu , or as my companions preferred to name her , the Razzyloo , was a human washing-tub , on a grand scale . To her we were carried for the purpose of
purification and fumigation—washing , scrubbing and scrapingprevious to being driven into the great fold—the Guardo—the reservoir—the receiving-ship—Salvador del Mundo—thence to be sent to the different markets—or rather , as we were already sold , slaughter-houses . And as I mounted the sides of the
great wash-tub , I was struck with the dry-heartedness of hopeless misery . Now we were called over by name , and ordered to ' toe a line ' on the quarter-deck , and such an assemblage as we were ! for an hour we stood affording to the different Knots of gazers right hearty merriment , and pah'ings' of disgust . Some of their jests were odd enough , and as new to my ears as they seemed mirthful and witty to them ; for they showed their
appreciation of them by chorusses of laughter , while the victims stood in sullen silence , neither daring nor caring to reply . 1 shrank
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Autobiography of Pel . Verjuice . 819
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1833, page 819, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2628/page/15/
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