Add to ORKGberth (n)The crews of their largest craft consist of from thirteen to eighteen men; of these some are gunners, who, on finding their own guns, are admitted _birth_ free; the rest pay generally forty shillings each for their birth,/ that is, for their proportion of the provisions during the voyage; and all are to receive each hal[-]s[-]f a man's share of the seals caught, or the value thereof, dividing the amount of the whole produce of the voyage into so many shares as there are men on board.PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit DNE-citG. M. Story OCT 1974JH NOV 1974Used I and SupUsed I4Used I[see 'berth']There is a horizonal line drawn in pencil, to the left of text and along the first six lines of quote. On fourth line of ...