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and all emergency gear. This locker also carried the _straps_, rope circles used in attaching tackles to spars and rigging. Of such straps we had hundreds, always in apple-pie order. Small
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for clapping a fall onto a stay, large three-inch rope straps for hooking the rolling tackles onto the mast doublings. The compartment for blocks was also kept in fine shape, so we could lay our hands on things in the darkest night. Great _snatch blocks_ for carrying a tack or sheet to the main or fo'c'sle head capstan, or for taking the fore or main tops'l halyards to the same; _secret blocks_ for _bunt jiggers_, a small round block about the size of a soup plate, with the sheave completely covered, the whip, for it is a single block, reeving through small holes in the edge of the shell to prevent the canvas fouling between the rope and the sheave as is possible in an ordinary block. _Clump blocks_, small and