Given on board the ---- FOOTNOTES: [1] See note, p.

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[Transcriber's note: The text for this note reads: '_Waft_ (more correctly written _wheft_).

It is any flag or ensign stopped together at the head and middle portion, slightly rolled up lengthwise, and hoisted at different positions at the after-part of a ship.'-- Admiral Smyth (_Sailors' Word-Book_).] [2] 'Exigent' = exigence, emergency.

Shakespeare has 'Why do you cross me in this exigent ?'--_Jul.

Caes._ v.