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Soon the sailors welcome on board Little Buttercup, a Portsmouth bumboat woman who has come to sell her wares, and who is hailed as "the rosiest, the roundest and the reddest beauty in all Spithead."

He had been unable to sneak away from the captain's gig when ashore, but made up for it by doing business with the bumboat men who came alongside.

Waiting alongside were two or three bumboats well stocked with fruit, soft-tack, eggs, and such curios as a sailor might be supposed to covet.

I, too, thought of the bumboat woman, but gave up hope of aid from her, seeing how she is watched.

Then clamber into a little bumboat for a 10-minute chug out to Changi Fishery, where you can enjoy an al fresco seafood dinner surrounded by paper lanterns and water.