Chapter

 1 III  |       seventeen hundred bales of cotton, of the estimated value
 2 III  |          conveying 1700 bales of cotton to Liverpool; that the shippers
 3 III  |      especial design of carrying cotton, and the entire hold, with
 4 IX   |    spontaneous combustion of the cotton. The case is rare, but it
 5 IX   |         from unknown. Unless the cotton is perfectly dry when it
 6 IX   |       thing for ships laden with cotton to arrive at Liverpool or
 7 XV   |        bulk of the 1700 bales of cotton.~
 8 XVI  |        inundate another layer of cotton.~At half-past eleven the
 9 XVII | overboard a few hundred bales of cotton; two or three days at most
10 XVII |          the upper layers of the cotton, in order that the combustion
11 XIX  |       condition for the bales of cotton to be removed for the carpenter
12 XIX  |     frequently by water that the cotton was all but spoiled. One
13 XIX  |         After the first layer of cotton had been removed it became
14 XXI  |         and such of the bales of cotton as had sustained the least
15 XXII |         by the ashes and bits of cotton that were floating about
16 XXIII|  dislodging some of the bales of cotton we could hear a splashing,