Four cabins, four passengers. For each of them there is a destination, a piece of luggage and the hour of boarding, but all of it jumbled up in loose notes.
A sea broke in through the hatch and the passenger book was left illegible. Eleven notes from the purser survive, and the whole book can be rebuilt from them: who is in each cabin, bound where, with what luggage and at what hour they came aboard. Not one note is spare.
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