This last sparsely descriptive, but largely imaginative; not fact, but fiction, pure and fakeful, and of such a specious species as to effectually discourage and scare away intending raw recruits and cause the while full many a gullible and guileless reader to wonder overmuch just why in this good day of grace the poor seafaring main-behind-the-guns should have to live (and get fat) on meat so smeared and smirched with printer's ink.
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