Vulgar words in South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition (Page 1)
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He fitted the mast of the 'Stancomb Wills' fore and aft inside the 'James Caird' as a hog-back and thus strengthened the keel with the object of preventing our boat "hogging"--that is, buckling in heavy seas.