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By Jack Joseph Smith

AS wE EMErgEd with our words The red haired Australian first mate Went streight to the New Zealand Captain "It's about the scum men sir" "Their up to Mutany as far as I can see" Down there in the bottom hole We stood fifeteen tall You must understand the way of the mind When out of 4000 dead You arrive at the last sheep And it's still alive They had packed 22,500 on the ship Trangie Insurance would take care of those with the rot The slow heat of the tropics MANZANillo cAPricorN

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GPT

Another opening draft recounts the mate's accusation, dead sheep and insurance. Handwritten notes add the opening and names associated with the voyage.

The speaker describes a final living sheep after counting the dead, placing the captain's reported view of the crew beside the cargo owners' insurance. Detached location notes leave the route open.

Claude

A typed draft of the ship scene that opens with the handwritten 'AS wE EMErgEd'. It gives the mate's report 'Their up to Mutany as far as I can see', the moment 'You arrive at the last sheep / And it's still alive', and the count 'They had packed 22,500 on the ship Trangie'. Detached place notes 'MANZANillo' and 'cAPricorN' follow.

The arithmetic of '4000 dead' against one living animal is the poem's central image, and this draft states it plainly.