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Translated as a Comfortable position for the traveller!, obviously a bit ofhumor. The sailor is passing a line over the pulley to keep it from strikingend of the boom during Bouree net towing operations. Plate VIII, print 11. In: Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco. Vol. 89. (Image credit: NOAA Rice Library of the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science | J. Richard)