there lies a frape-boat, as our seamen call it, to take in the salt.  It is made purposely for this use, with a deck reaching from the stern a third part of the boat; where there is a kind of bulkhead that rises not from the boat’s bottom but from the edge of the deck to about 2 foot in height; all caulked very tight.  The use of it is to keep the waves from dashing into the boat when it lies with its head to the shore to take in salt:  for here commonly runs a great sea; and when the boat lies so with its head to the shore the sea breaks in over the stern, and would soon fill it was it not for this bulkhead, which stops the waves that come flowing upon the deck and makes them run off into the sea on each side.  To keep the boat thus with the head to the shore and the stern to the sea there are two strong stanchions set up in the boat, the one at the head, the other in the middle of it, against the bulkhead, and a foot higher than the bulkhead.  There is a large notch cut in the top of each of these stanchions big enough for a small hawser or rope to lie in; one end of which is fastened to a post ashore, and the other to a grappling or anchor lying a pretty way off at sea:  this rope serves to haul the boat in and out, and the stanchions serve to keep her fast, so that she cannot swing to either side when the rope is hauled tight:  for the sea would else fill her, or toss her ashore and stave her.  The better to prevent her staving and to keep her the tighter together there are two sets of ropes more:  the first going athwart from gunwale to gunwale, which, when the rowers benches are laid, bind the boats sides so hard against the ends of the benches that they cannot easily fall asunder, while the benches and ropes mutually help each other; the ropes keeping the boat’s sides from flying off, and the benches from being crushed together inwards.  Of these ropes there are usually but two, dividing the boat’s length as they go across the sides into three equal parts.  The other set of ropes are more in number, and are so placed as to keep the ribs and planks of the boat from starting off.  For this purpose there are holes made at certain distances through the edge of the keel that runs along on the inside of the boat; through which these ropes passing are laid along the ribs so as to line them, or be themselves as ribs upon them, being made fast to them by rattans brought thither, or small cords twisted close about both ropes and ribs, up to the gunwale:  by which means though several of the nails or pegs of the boat should by any shock fall out, yet the ropes of these two sets might hold her together:  especially with the help of a rope going quite round about the gunwale on the outside, as our longboats have.  And such is the care taken to strengthen the boats; from which girding them with ropes, which our seamen call fraping, they have the name of frape-boats.  Two men suffice to haul her in and out, and take in the salt from shore (which is brought in bags) and