There were already a couple of score of passengers aboard, some ofwhom had expended their last money in securing a passage, but thecaptain lay off the Blackwater until five in the afternoon, picking uppassengers until the seated decks were even dangerously crowded. Hewould probably have remained longer had it not been for the sound ofguns that began about that hour in the south.
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