Quotes About Topside

This went on for four hours. By Millie's count, four hours was enough time to kill twenty-seven prairie dogs. They might have a language of sorts, but they didn't use it to tell each other not to have a look-see at what all the commotion was topside.

They would have inspected the bread room, which would soon be filled with casks of flour and biscuits; the gunner's room, where powder and shot were stored; and the steerage area and tiller room. Making their way topside, the ship's officers would have checked the rigging and eyed ropes and lines and masts and spars and surveyed the ship's boat, turned turtle on the upper deck.