`` well , i suppose we must have been attacked , but i do not see any other ship at all , '' temeraire had said , deeply confused himself , and winged around the allegiance , only then seeing the enormous gaping hole into the ship-and so very strange to see her cut open in such a way and look in at all the decks in cross-section , the lumpy white hammocks swinging from the rafters like the drawing he had seen once of silkworms in their cocoons , and the guns sliding out into the ocean with tremendous plashes .