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try and stop them or say anything for some other drunk would have hit one with the first thing he could get or if one or two could'nt do it they would collect from ten to twenty mad drunks and go around the ship looking for one.  Several times today I have been on the point of objecting to some of the abuse or interferences I have been subjected to by drunks and other fools who I could have knocked down two at a time as my leg would have stood it but Im glad I did'nt for I can guess what it would mean sooner or later for last night one of the crew was hit on the head with a hammer and another had his elbow split

 

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