人们在船上买卖货物。

People buy and sell things on boats.

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尽管船上有包括随船医生在内的大量乘客患病死亡，马赛市内有权势的商人仍然要求解除隔离禁令，以便拿到他们在船上的货物。

Despite numerous ship passengers perishing from the plague, including the ships surgeon, powerful city merchants had the ships quarantine lifted to receive the goods they had on board.

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山姆不在船上，但弟弟亨利在船上。亨利是这艘船的“排泥手”，就是常到泥泞的河岸边，为货船搬运货物的男孩。

Sam was not aboard, but his younger brother, Henry, was-serving as a "mud clerk," or boy who would go ashore, often at a mud bank, to receive or hand off freight.

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