CHAPTER VII

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On the Banks--A Low Glass--Blowing Again--I Fall and Shake the Poop--Taylor’s Whitlow--Sea-Boils--Pipes growing Scarce--“Storm along, Stormie”--The whole Crew washed away from the Mainbrace--My knee damaged--The Bosun and Bower--Clark Russell at Fault--Model-Making--Discussion on Flogging--An Albatross Caught--Ill-health on Board--My Medicine Chest--A Dead Muzzler--An Electric Storm--Jack o’ Lanterns--My poor Knee--Johnsen’s Troubles--A Wild Highlander at Meals--A Prophet of Evil--Don and Scar.