I'm really enjoying the humor this time through. I'm going to quote one passage, in regard to a seaman who's to be court martialed for carnal relations with a goat:
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'What will happen to him?'
'Oh, he'll be hanged. Run up at the yard-arm, and boats attending from every ship in the fleet.'
'That seems a little extreme.'
'Of course it is. Oh, what an infernal bore - witnesses going over to the flagship by the dozen, days lost....The Sophie a laughing-stock. Why will they report these thing? The goat must be slaughtered - that's but fair - and it shall be served out to the mess that informed on him.'
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Such a ludicrous indictment of a brutal society.... Poor goat! I can't imagine it was a willing participant.