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 A race that can't sit still;
 So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
 And they roam the world at will."
+
 -Robert Service
 
-"On either end of the social spectrum there lies a leisure class." – Eric Beck
+#Notes
+
+- Need more details of landscape, sea, and marsh esp.
+- household is father, Tambo and his wife, plus Kobayashi.
+
+Plots
+- The british captain from Charletown is also the landowner of th etrees, McPhail. He comes after the family about the tree stumps, which he sees as his, being used for their profit, and also that they make the pirate ships that raid mcphail's ships more seaworth, insult to injury.  Add moral complexity for the kids, is papa a bad person? Is the McPhail a bad person? Or is it all just wrong and now can own the trees?
+
+I own them fair and square.
+She thought this over a for miniute. "No, you don't. You forced out the Ediston and the tk, and the tk. You overwhelmed them with force and marched them out."
+"Yes. Yes, I suppose that's quite right, I did." He smiled quizically at her. 
+"And that's wrong. Every bit as wrong was what you say papa did."
+"No my child it's not."
+"Then why is wrong when capitan Ratham overwhelms one of your ships and takes it from you.
+"Woah!" He jerked the reins tight, and the horses nearly reared as the wagon can lurching to a stop. He said nothing, but turned and stared at her for a long time. She felt his eyes memorizing her features the way she had studied the pictures hir bool. then smilled aagain, shook the reins loos and resumed their journey, staring off into space and ignoring her the remainder of the way into Charlestown.
+
+They eta waring from Ratham that McPhail is coming for them. 
+How does the storm fit in?
+No good guys, no bad guys. her father helps both ratham and mcphail. Warns mcphail of the storm, helps bring his ship int to he esuary to shelther, they take the wagon to chareston.
+
+Overplot:
+
+- Opening in the stumps
+- Then Tambo and Gullah 
+    - Idyllic farming corn and rice, making gum and tar for the ships. autumn cool, swimming and playing at the beach in the wrecked ship.
+- Ratham arrives to careen the ship
+    - warns of mcphail
+- McPhail part one
+    arrives to arrest the father, talks his way out of it because the shortm
+    - guides Mcphails ship into the estuary they take shelpter
+- McPhail part two
+    - Still arrests the father, takes him to charlestown.
+    - Birdie goes with
+    - Lulu and henri hide with the others, they escape by sea. 
+        - get to Ratham, they meet up with a third
+        - Ships proceed to blockade charlestown.
+    - Ratham helps the father escape, family escapes to sea, heads south toward the Caribean.
 
 
+# Prologue
 
+They were two. Blood covered the bed. Even the midwife was whimpering and pitiful by the end. "A night and day," she said. And they were born, one the night, one the day. 
 
+People remarked on this for a long while afterward, though no one knew which was born in the night, which the day save the midwife. Nor would anyone have been able to tell you what difference it might have made. Still, the story followed them. It followed them like the whispers that had always followed the family. The whispers were a wind, one that blew them sometimes where they wanted, sometimes not. Seafaring people must live with that.
 
+The whispering wind followed them out of the town where they spent their winters, across the sea, running the easterlies to the mouth of a river, the wide open flood plain where they spent their summers on the shore, amongst the great pines. But the whispers came with their neighbors working the cod offshore. It came on shore like the August winds that whistled the pines. A whisper that blew harder every year, as if a storm were gathering. 
 
+Their father spent all summer, a cold summer, sitting in the evenings, outside the tent, stroking his thick black beard and studying the wind and waves. There are storms worse than the sea he said. 
 
-Where there aligarts in Edisto back then? Yes
+That year, when the last the southerlies blew out and before the northerlies turned fierce and cold, they loaded the small boat and slipped out of the old story.
 
-Need more dtails of landscape from Bartrum
+They kept to the coast, giving wide berth to the places men gathered. When they came upon the marshy lowlands of London, they put in for a time. The twins had no memory of London, but the mention of it would made their father turn quiet. 
 
-What of the mother. She is always vague. 
+When the winds blew favorably again they left, hugging the coast until there was no coast left. And they were gone again. To a new world where people said the soldiers were fewer, the winds warmer, the possibilities wider. 
 
-Add seas stories from coastal england
+By the time they arrived all the twins had left was a memory of trees. The deep darkness of the forest floor where they would lie, staring up at the trees, the branches reaching like thick fingers to scratch at the light of the sky above.
 
+# Autumn
 
-# Prologue
+Wood and salt. Wooden salt. Crusted on the mast near her head were white patterns that looked like the drawings of snowflakes in Papa's book, wrapped in walrus leather and stored somewhere in the small hold below her. She did not know where. Neither did her sister. Neither did her brother. It was a mystery they worked on nearly every day they were at sea.
 
-They were two. Blood covered the sheets. Even the midwife was whimpering and pitiful by the end. "A night and day," their father would say later. Their mother never corrected him. And they were born, one the night, one the day. 
+The wood creaked, some of the salt blew loose. The water slapping the hull told her the waves were small. Her hammock, strung between mizzen mast and taffrail, swayed hardly at all. She lay without moving, trying to feel the boat as her father had taught her. She closed her eyes again. The boat was lifting and rolling slightly. They were moving with the current, in a light swell. At this latitude, this time of year, that would be south. The sail snapped like a whipped wet towel. That meant the wind was light. She listened again to the sound of the water, it pulsed, rushing by the boat in surges, quiet, then loud. The boat was moving fast enough that the wind probably wasn't light she reasoned. That meant they were tk, otherwise the sail wouldn't have snapped. 
 
-People remarked on this for a long while afterward, though no one knew which was born at night, which the day. Nor would they have been able to tell you what difference it might have made if you pressed them. Still, the story of it followed them. It followed them like the whispers that had always followed their parents ever since they'd arrived. The whispers were a wind, one that blew them sometimes where they wanted, sometimes not. Seafaring people must live with that.
+"We're running south, riding a southerly swell, the wind is 6 knots" She announced from the hammock. She heard her sister groan. Her father chuckled. "Close. We're not tk, more a broad reach. I just fell off and let the sail flap to wake you two up."
 
-The whispering wind followed them out of the town where they spent their winters, across the sea, running the easterlies to the mouth of the river, the wide open flood plain where they spent their summers on the shore, amongst the great pines. The whispers came with their neighbors working the cod offshore and it came on shore like the August winds that whistled the pines. A whisper that blew harder every year, as if a storm were gathering. 
+Birdie smiled in her hammock. She stretched, lifting her arm out to feel the air. It was still cool, though wet and heavy. The sodden heat would come even earlier today, as it had every day for the last week. They would make winter camp the next day, maybe the day after Birdie reasoned. She pulled her head up out of the hammock to scan the deck.
 
-Their father spent all summer, a cold summer, sitting in the evenings, outside the tent, stroking his thick black beard and studying the wind and waves. There are storms worse than the sea he said. That year, when the last the southerlies blew out and before the northerlies turned fierce and cold, they loaded the small boat and slipped out of the old story.
+The tk was 39 feet from her bow sprite to rear rail where Lulu's hammock was tied. There were two masts, one just fore of midship and another in the cockpit at the rear. Her father was vague about her origins, though as Birdie understood it, she was built in a place called France, sailed into tk waters where she ran aground. Her cargo was offloaded and she was abandoned to the waves. That was not Poseidon's plan though. The tides had pulled her back out to see. And her father, who happened to be on watch on another merchant ship had spied her. Sensing his chance, he'd woken two companions, sailed along side her and the three trimmed sails of their vessel and jumped ship for the new one.
 
-They kept to the coast, giving wide berth to the places men gathered. When they came upon the marshy lowlands of London town, they put in for a time, of which the twins retained no memory, but the mention of which still made their father shudder and their mother turn quiet. The left again, hugging the coast until they found a buccaneer ship that offered passage. And they were gone again. To a new world where people said the soldiers were fewer, the winds warmer and the possibilities wider. 
+One of those companions, Tambo, a tall, powerfully man with skin so black it was almost blue, was walking after now toward Birdie. She hopped out of the hammock, her feet landing on the smoothly worn oak planking of the deck with a light thud. 
 
-By the time they arrived all they had left was the memory of the trees. The deep darkness of the forest floor where they would lie, staring up at the trees, the trees reaching like thick fingers to scratch at the light of the sky above.
 
-# Autumn
 
-Wood and salt. Wooden salt. Crusted on the mast near her head were white patterns that looked like the drawings of snowflakes in Papa's book, wrapped in walrus leather and stored somewhere in the small hold below her. She did not know where. Neither did her sister. Neither did her brother. I was a mystery they worked on nearly every day they were at sea.
 
-The boat creaked and groaned, the water slapping sides of the hull told her the waves were small, the sway of the hammock, strung between mizzen mast and cockpit, swayed hardly at all, moving with the sea, at this latitude, this time of year that would be south. The sail snapped like a whipped wet towel. The wind was light, or they were running downwind. That made the most sense suddenly, they were running downwind, headed south on a southerly swell. 
 
-Lulu stretched, lifting her arm out of the hammock to feel the air, still cool, though wet and heavy. The heat would come earlier today, as it had every day for the last week. 
 
 They sail in the next day, father tells a story of some kind, a gannet dives at the boat to add some drama. they reach edisto, sam and charlie, the cousins come out from Charles twon. Tamba and tk and cuthie, he gets introduced, they set up camp, play on the dunes, find the arkhangelsk, make tar, go inland to get chicle, hunt and fish and swim. Then north to Charles town, then the storm. The death of Sam and then the family heads north again.
 
@@ -575,3 +613,7 @@ so Tamba comes to the fire and starts to tell stories, her father tries to get h
 What does he do, he helpos get the goods ashore and brings water out to the boats when the need it. dried fish, he's paid in whatever the boat has, somethimes rich fabrics their mother makes into fine dresses f, sometimes rum, which her father sells to the taverns in charlestown. Perhaps there's  ascene where they all go to charles town to trade the rum for money and the kids get to go to the traders, scene at the slave market. That could be a rough one. need to find out when slavery reeally took off, when the slave market opened. woiuld it have been their in 1705? If not then some seen of blacks being treated poorly and the family's rage. Maybe her father buys someone, a child perhaps, a man and a child. Her father hauls them back out to camp and sets them free. They help out and then they go to join a crew. 
 
 Tamba asks them their names, asks if they can sail. They buy someone that can and set them free.
+
+# Glossary
+
+Taffrail rail round the stern of a ship 
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+http://phrontistery.info/nautical.html
+
+Nautical Terms
+
+Ahoy, mateys! This be a fair and true listing of words having to do with ships and sailing, 225 of them in all. These terms come mainly from the great age of sailing ships, the 16th to 18th centuries, and almost all hail from the two great seafaring peoples of the day, those being the brave English and the most hated Dutch. Be fairly warned: I, being a landlubber of the most scurvy sort, know little of such nautical matters aside from what my word-books tell me, so if there are any sea-dogs out there who would deign to correct me on matters of seaman's cant and jargon, ye should holler from atop the crow's nest of your vessels. Ahoy!
+
+Word 	Definition
+abaft 	toward or at the stern of a ship; further aft
+affreightment 	hiring of a vessel
+afterdeck 	deck behind a ship's bridge
+afterguard 	men who work the aft sails on the quarterdeck and poop deck
+ahull 	with sails furled and helm lashed to the lee-side
+amidships 	midway between the bow and stern of a ship
+astern 	at the stern of a ship
+backstay 	stay extending from ship's mastheads to the side of the ship
+ballaster 	one who supplies ships with ballast
+bargemaster 	owner of a barge
+bee 	hardwood on either side of bowsprit through which forestays are reeved
+belay 	to secure a rope by winding on a pin or cleat
+bilge 	lower point of inner hull of a ship
+binnacle 	case in which a ship's compass is kept
+bitts 	posts mounted on a ship for fastening ropes
+bluepeter 	blue flag with white square in centre used as ship's signal
+boatswain 	ship's crewmember in charge of equipment and maintenance
+bobstay 	rope used on ships to steady the bowsprit
+bollard 	short post on a wharf or ship to which ropes are tied
+boltrope 	strong rope stitched to edges of a sail
+bosun 	boatswain
+bottomry 	using the ship as collateral to finance a sea voyage
+bow 	front of a ship
+bower 	anchor carried at bow of a ship
+bowline 	rope used to keep weather edge of a sail taut
+bowsprit 	spar that extends at bows of a ship
+brails 	ropes on edge of sail for hauling up
+bream 	to clean a ship's bottom by burning off seaweed
+bulwark 	the side of a ship above the deck
+bumpkin 	spar projecting from stern of ship
+bunt 	middle of sail, fish-net or cloth when slack
+buntline 	rope attached to middle of square sail to haul it up to the yard
+burgee 	small ship's flag used for identification or signalling
+cable 	heavy rope or chain for mooring a ship
+cabotage 	shipping and sailing between points in the same country
+camber 	slight arch or convexity to a beam or deck of a ship
+capstan 	upright device for winding in heavy ropes or cables
+careen 	to turn a ship on its side in order to clean or repair it
+cathead 	projection near the bow of a ship to which anchor is secured
+chine 	the intersection of the middle and sides of a boat
+chock 	metal casting with curved arms for passing ropes for mooring ship
+clew 	corner of sail with hole to attach ropes
+coaming 	raised edge around ship's hatches to keep water out
+cocket 	official shipping seal; customs clearance form
+cofferdam 	narrow vacant space between two bulkheads of a ship
+cog 	single-masted, square-sailed ship with raised stern
+companionway 	stairs from upper deck of ship to lower deck
+cordage 	ropes in the rigging of a ship
+cringle 	loop at corner of sail to which a line is attached
+crosstrees 	horizontal crosspieces at a masthead used to support ship's mast
+davit 	device for hoisting and lowering a boat
+deadeye 	rounded wooden block with hole used to set up ship's stays
+deadwood 	timbers built into ends of ship when too narrow to permit framing
+demurrage 	delay of vessel's departure or loading with cargo
+dodger 	shield against rain or spray on a ship's bridge
+dogwatch 	a short, evening period of watch duty on a ship
+downhaul 	rope for holding down or hauling down a sail or spar
+dromond 	large single-sailed ship powered by rowers
+dyogram 	ship's chart indicating compass deflection due to ship's iron
+earing 	line for fastening corner of a sail to the gaff or yard
+ensign 	large naval flag
+escutcheon 	part of ship's stern where name is displayed
+fairlead 	ring through which rope is led to change its direction without friction
+fardage 	wood placed in bottom of ship to keep cargo dry
+fiddley 	iron framework around hatchway opening
+figurehead 	ornament or (usually female) bust attached to the bow of a ship
+flagstaff 	flag pole at stern of a ship
+fluke 	part of an anchor that fastens in the ground
+forebitt 	post for fastening cables at a ship's foremast
+forecabin 	cabin in fore part of ship
+forecastle 	short raised deck at fore end of ship; fore of ship under main deck
+forefoot 	foremost end of ship's keel
+foremast 	mast nearest the bow of a ship
+foresail 	lowest sail set on the foremast of square-rigged ship
+forestay 	stay leading from the foremast to the bow of a ship
+frap 	to draw a sail tight with ropes or cables
+freeboard 	distance between waterline and main deck of a ship
+futtock 	rib of a ship
+gaff 	spar on which head of fore-and-aft sail is extended
+gaff-topsail 	triangular topsail with its foot extended upon the gaff
+gangway 	either of the sides of the upper deck of a ship
+garboard 	plank on a ship’s bottom next to the keel
+genoa 	large jib that overlaps the mainsail
+grapnel 	small anchor used for dragging or grappling
+groundage 	a charge on a ship in port
+gudgeon 	metal socket into which the pintle of a boat's rudder fits
+gunnage 	number of guns carried on a warship
+gunwale 	upper edge of the side of a ship
+gybe 	to swing a sail from one side to another
+halyard 	rope or tackle for hoisting and lowering sails
+hank 	series of rings or clips for attaching a jib or staysail to a stay
+hawse 	distance between ship's bow and its anchor
+hawsehole 	hole for ship's cable
+hawser 	large rope for mooring or towing a ship
+headsail 	sail set forward of the foremast of a ship
+helm 	ship's steering wheel
+holystone 	sandstone material used to scrape ships' decks
+inboard 	inside the line of a ship's bulwarks or hull
+jack 	ship's flag flown from jack-staff at bow of vessel
+jack-block 	pulley system for raising topgallant masts
+jack-cross-tree 	single iron cross-tree at head of a topgallant mast
+jackstaff 	short staff at ship's bow from which the jack is hoisted
+jackstay 	iron or wooden bar running along yard of ship to which sails fastened
+jackyard 	spar used to spread the foot of a gaff-topsail
+jib 	small triangular sail extending from the head of the foremast
+jibboom 	spar forming an extension of the bowsprit
+jibe 	to change a ship's course to make the boom shift sides
+jurymast 	mast erected on ship in place of one lost
+kedge 	small anchor to keep a ship steady
+keelhaul 	to punish by dragging under keel of ship
+keelson 	lengthwise wooden or steel beam in ship for bearing stress
+kentledge 	pig-iron used as ballast in ship's hold
+lagan 	cargo jettisoned from ship but marked by buoys for recovery
+lanyard 	rope or line for fastening something in a ship
+larboard 	left side of a ship
+lastage 	room for stowing goods in a ship
+lateen 	triangular sail rigged on ship's spar
+laveer 	to sail against the wind
+lazaret 	space in ship between decks used for storage
+leeboard 	wood or metal planes attached to hull to prevent leeway
+leech 	a vertical edge of a square sail
+loxodograph 	device used to record ship's travels
+luff 	windward side of a ship; forward edge of fore-and-aft sail
+lugsail 	four-sided sail bent to an obliquely hanging yard
+lutchet 	fitting on ship's deck to allow mast to pivot to pass under bridges
+mainmast 	sailing ship's principal mast
+mainsail 	principal sail on a ship's mainmast
+mainsheet 	rope by which mainsail is trimmed and secured
+mainstay 	stay that extends from the main-top to the foot of the foremast
+manrope 	rope used as a handrail on a ship
+martingale 	lower stay of rope used to sustain strain of the forestays
+mizzen 	three-masted vessel; aft sail of such a vessel
+mizzenmast 	mast aft or next aft of the mainmast in a ship
+moonraker 	topmost sail of a ship, above the skyscraper
+oakum 	old ropes untwisted for caulking the seams of ships
+orlop 	lowest deck in a ship having four or more decks
+outhaul 	rope used to haul a sail taut along a spar
+outrigger 	spar extended from side of ship to help secure mast
+painter 	rope attached to bow of a boat to attach it to a ship or a post
+pallograph 	instrument measuring ship's vibration
+parrel 	band by which a yard is fastened to a mast
+patroon 	captain of a ship; coxswain of a longboat
+poop 	enclosed structure at stern of ship above main deck
+port 	when facing forward, the left side of a ship
+primage 	fee paid to loaders for loading ship
+purser 	ship's officer in charge of finances and passengers
+quarterdeck 	part of ship's deck set aside by captain for ceremonial functions
+quartering 	sailing nearly before the wind
+rake 	the inclination of a mast or another part of a ship
+ratline 	small rope forming a rung of a rope ladder on a ship
+reef 	to reduce area of a sail by rolling or folding part of it
+reeve 	to pass a rope through a ring
+roach 	curved cut in edge of sail for preventing chafing
+roband 	piece of yarn used to fasten a sail to a spar
+rostrum 	spike on prow of warship for ramming
+rowlock 	contrivance serving as a fulcrum for an oar
+royal 	small sail on royal mast just above topgallant sail
+scud 	to sail swiftly before a gale
+scupper 	hole allowing water to drain from ship’s deck
+scuttlebutt 	cask of drinking water aboard a ship; rumour, idle gossip
+scuttles 	portholes on a ship
+sheer 	fore-and-aft curvature of a ship from bow to stern
+shrouds 	ropes supporting the mast of a ship
+sidelight 	coloured lights on side of a ship under way at night
+skeg 	part of ship connecting the keel with the bottom of the rudderpost
+skysail 	sail above the royal sail
+skyscraper 	triangular sail on a ship above the royal
+slipway 	ramp sloping into water for supporting a ship
+snotty 	naval midshipman
+spanker 	sail on the mast nearest the stern of a square-rigged ship
+spar 	any ship's mast, boom, yard, or gaff
+spinnaker 	large triangular sail opposite the mainsail
+spirketting 	inside planking between ports and waterways of a ship
+sponson 	platform jutting from ship’s deck for gun or wheel
+sprit 	spar crossing a fore-and-aft sail diagonally
+spritsail 	sail extended by a sprit
+starboard 	when facing forward, the right side of a ship
+starbolins 	sailors of the starboard watch
+stay 	large rope used to support a mast
+staysail 	fore-and-aft sail hoisted on a stay
+steeve 	to set a ship's bowsprit at an upward inclination
+stemson 	supporting timber of a ship
+stern 	back part of a ship
+sternpost 	main member at stern of a ship extending from keel to deck
+sternway 	movement of a ship backwards
+stevedore 	dock worker who loads and unloads ships
+stokehold 	ship’s furnace chamber
+strake 	continuous band of plates on side of a ship
+stunsail 	light auxiliary sail to the side of principal sails
+supercargo 	ship's official in charge of business affairs
+taffrail 	rail round the stern of a ship
+thole 	pin in the side of a boat to keep oar in place
+tiller 	handle or lever for turning a ship's rudder
+timberhead 	top end of ship's timber used above the gunwale
+timenoguy 	rope stretched from place to place in a ship
+topgallant 	mast or sail above the topmast and below the royal mast
+topmast 	ship's mast above the lower mast
+topsail 	ship's sail above the lowermost sail
+tranship 	to transfer from one ship to another
+transire 	ship's customs warrant for clearing goods
+transom 	transverse timbers attached to ship's sternpost
+treenail 	long wooden pin used to fix planks of ship to the timbers
+trice 	to haul in and lash secure a sail with a small rope
+trunnel 	wooden shipbuilding peg used for fastening timbers
+trysail 	ship's sail bent to a gaff and hoisted on a lower mast
+tuck 	part of ship where ends of lower planks meet under the stern
+turtleback 	structure over ship’s bows or stern
+unreeve 	to withdraw a rope from an opening
+walty 	inclined to tip over or lean
+wardroom 	quarters for ship's officers
+washboard 	broad thin plank along ship's gunwale to keep out sea water
+watching 	fully afloat
+waveson 	goods floating on the sea after a shipwreck
+wear 	to turn a ship's stern to windward to alter its course
+weatherboard 	weather side of a ship
+weatherly 	able to sail close to the wind with little leeway
+wheelhouse 	shelter where ship’s steering wheel kept
+whipstaff 	vertical lever controlling ship’s rudder
+windbound 	hindered from sailing by contrary winds
+windlass 	winch used to raise a ship's anchor
+xebec 	small three-masted pirate ship
+yard 	tapering spar attached to ship's mast to spread the head of a square sail
+yardarm 	either end of the yard of a square-rigged ship
+yawl 	ship’s small boat; sailboat carrying mainsail and one or more jibs
+zabra 	small Spanish sailing vessel