到目前为止，我在热带大西洋所写的专栏文章里没有很详细地描述过筏子的情况，现在我让大家来分享一下我们这个非同寻常的家：它实质上是一条四体船，由四根每根长40英尺，两头封闭的水管构成。

So far in these columns from the tropical Atlantic, I have not described the raft's features in great detail. Let me share a few facts about our extraordinary home.

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5月15日前后，新船的龙骨已经搁在造船所了；不久，船首材和船尾材也已用榫头分别接在龙骨的两头，几乎直立起来。

About the 15th of May the keel of the new vessel lay along the dockyard, and soon the stem and stern-post, mortised at each of its extremities, rose almost perpendicularly.

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