When we were watching Massena, off Genoa, we got a matter of seventy schooners, brigs, and tartans, with wine, food, and powder.

And the fishing barks and lightercraft with broad sails and slender masts, stealing across the sky in towof inconspicuous tugs, were coming in, faster and slower, towards thedevouring ogre, who from time to time seemed to have had a surfeit, andspewed out to the open sea another fleet of steamers, brigs, schooners,and three-masted vessels with their tangled mass of rigging.

Ships were due from Brazil, from La Plata, from Chiliand Japan, two Danish brigs, a Norwegian schooner, and a Turkishsteamship--which startled Pierre as much as if it had read a Swisssteamship; and in a whimsical vision he pictured a great vessel crowdedwith men in turbans climbing the shrouds in loose trousers.

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