Two doors, one on each side, led into wee little state- rooms, the berths of which also were littered.

Among other things, was a large box, sheathed with iron and stoutly clamped, containing a keg partly filled with powder, the half of an old cutlass, a pouch of bullets, and a case for a sextant--a brass plate on the lid, with the maker's name.London.The broken blade of the cutlass was very rusty and stained; and the iron hilt bent in.

It looked so tragical that I thrust it out of sight.
Removing a small trap-door, opening into the space beneath, called the "run," we lighted upon sundry cutlasses and muskets, lying together at sixes and sevens, as if pitched down in a hurry.
Casting round a hasty glance, and satisfying ourselves, that through the bulkhead of the cabin, there was no passage to the forward part of the hold, we caught up the muskets and cutlasses, the powder keg and the pouch of bullets, and bundling them on deck, prepared to visit the other end of the vessel.

Previous to so doing, however, I loaded a musket, and belted a cutlass to my side.

But my Viking preferred his harpoon.
In the forecastle reigned similar confusion.