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The ’tween deck is abuzz with gentlemen and commoners both, wondering what this land sighting means.

I decide I’d rather be beaten with an oar than sit in the dark ’tween deck waiting to be devoured by sea monsters.

Then they are ushered below to the ’tween deck for the long journey home.

We cannot get the houses built fast enough, and we are crammed together almost the way we were on the ’tween deck of the Susan Constant.

Two sailors swing down into the ’tween deck, and there is the clanking of chains as they unlock Captain Smith’s irons.