Not P but Moby-Dick (40)

[Ian Livingston]

Early for me. I was right the first time. Got distracted by papermaking.....

On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 5:56 AM Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
wrote:

> editing here: It sounds like the beds he is describing here are wooden
> platforms, rather than hammocks, and mats are both mattress and blanket.
>
> On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 5:53 AM Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> A mat of woven grasses, or, sometimes simply a couple of armloads of hay
>> thrown into the hammock, which passed as a bed for many sailors. The
>> hammocks are suspended in rows from timbers in the below decks. Woven grass
>> is a pretty good insulator as a mattress.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 2:40 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> All I can find is this. From a book on making paper:
>>>
>>> FOUND INSIDE – PAGE 156
>>> ... grass mat and its wet sheet are then lifted off the frame with a
>>> rolling movement and deposited on a board , once ... swinging the mould .
>>> The laid cover is secured between two wooden frames , and when forming is
>>> complete the two halves ...
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 5:24 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > From Chapter 54:
>>> >
>>> > “Lakeman!—Buffalo! Pray, what is a Lakeman, and where is Buffalo? ”
>>> said
>>> > Don Sebastian, rising in his swinging mat of grass.
>>> >
>>> > What is this "swinging mat of grass" exactly? Is it a mat made of
>>> grass?
>>> > Then how is it swinging?
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>>> >
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>>