We walked down into the bustling docks, stinking of long dead fish and
seaweed. We walked past the decreped old fishing boats and their
owners, all with rotting wooden lobster pots and old rope nets. The
huge ship was moared in the harbour, its ancient gangplank rested
lightly on the hole filled pier. Mr Cheese, our navigator, stood at
the top polishing his peg leg, while Meet-Hook stood behind working on
yet another wax painting. Otis and Carla ran up the gangplank and
began to load the crates of sugar and cotten from the plantations into
the hold. While I, our captain, Guybrush Threepwood, mighty pirate and
fearless leader walked upto the bridge and serveyed the sea around.
The Caribbean sea shone crystal clear in the bright rays of the Sun. I
could see the glorious coral and all it's colourful inhabitants the
turtles, the fish and the sharks allswimming around gracefully going
about their buisness. Fish eating coral, bigger fish eating smaller
fish and sharks genrally eating everything and everyone that got in
their way. I could see and smell the reeking slave ship coming slowly
over the horizon from the continent of Africa illegally smuggling more
slaves for the greedy plantation ownwers. We lukily were only employed
to carry cargo, no people. We were taking the sugar and cotton to the
English port town of Liverpool, where it would be sold and taken
across the country.
"Time to sale Mr Cheese," I called from the bridge. "Aye, aye Sir,"
replied Mr Cheese. He walked over, his footsteps really were very
comical, I could hear Otis and Carla sniggering from the hold, Thud,
Clunk, Thud Clunk went his feet. He took hold of the weel and
Meet-Hook raised the sails with his great strength. Mr Cheese slowly
turned the weel and steered the ship out of port. "We'll have to pay
for that when we get back!" yelled Otis as Mr Cheese crashed the boat
through pier behind us. "Oops!" he yelled.
We eventually got out of the port after much crashing and bashing into
They then got in the boat and Edwin started it up and backed up from the bay.
“Packed Densely, Like Herrings” is a story about the struggles that indentured servants had to go through to get to the new world.
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It deals with the travels of John Emmanuel Ocansey. Ocansey’s travel began on 28 April, 1881 through a British ship, the S S Mayumba. He starts his journey from the gold coast to reach his destination Liverpool. There was a deal between John’s father; William Narh Ocansey and Liverpudlian Commission agent, Robert W. Hickson. William Narh Ocansey was a successful merchant of palm oil whose business was to export palm oil to England. This substance was used in Europe for manufacturing of soap and candles. It was also used as lubricants for machines and railway stock. The demand for palm oil was rapidly increasing in England. To improve his trade William thought of purchasing “a steam launch, like the ones owned and operated by the
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The apparent talk in “Cargoes” is about ships and their shipments, but is there a deeper meaning? Do the ships symbolize the riches of the modern, medieval, and contemporary world? These questions can be answered throughout the poem and digested with a deeper meaning. The Quinquereme, Spanish galleon, and the British coaster deteriorated rapidly throughout the poem. When comparing the Quinquereme and the British coaster the difference is obvious. Each critic makes a point of making the ships stand out in the poem. Jhan Hochman and Bruce Meyer agree that the British coaster is dirty and carrying daily goods needed in life. The wealth throughout the centuries digresses, but both Jhan Hochman and Bruce Meyer believes that this poem has more than just wealth implemented inside. The poem loosely resembles the story of the three wise men. Each of the wise men brought different goods back to their king. Masefield uses the Quinquereme, Spanish galleon, and British coaster to symbolize the wealth throughout each century, the poem also relates back to the biblical story of the three wise men.
The waves were too much for the crew to overcome, still they attempted one last time to make it to shore as the captain realized the boat would not be able to sustain them for much longer. As they rowed toward the shore, the boat began to sink and all of the crew jumped
The disturbance of the waves cause the seagulls to take flight squawking with dismay. A horse’s drawn carriage is heard approaching in the distance by the sounds of clopping as it hits the asphalt pavement. The wheels of the carriage make a subtle screech as it strains to a stop. A man with a microphone proceeds to energetically recite the historic significance of the harbor to its patrons. While the banter from the patrons and man with a microphone dies down; wild clicking and snapping of camera marks the commencement to the next destination.
At the dock we decided to place all our belongings on a wooden table next to the shore. We swiftly opened the bags of chips we had brought because we were all starving. A half hour passed by of munching on chips and talking, until Julian decided he was going to the dock to feel the water. At the time, we didn’t really think much of it as it wasn’t really important that he felt the
The towering, forsaken structures engulfed the winding highways in their umbra. The streets, once cluttered with commuters walking to and fro from work now suffocated by a plague of vehicles. The sound of leaves and the debris from the crumbling skyscrapers could be heard for miles through the slashing wind, bringing nothing but pain and torture to those in its path. Without the sounds of humans the city felt even lonelier and without warmth. A monstrous clock tower stood at the end of one canyon-like street, the giant black hands forever stuck at noon.
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She is sitting on the beach, alone. Her legs are curled under her, and her hands are feeling the pebbles at her side. They are smooth, like ducks' eggs. They fit snugly into her palm. The kind of pebble David used to kill Goliath, she thinks.
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