grey arrived at percy 's rooms at nightfall , soaking wet and chilled to the bone from a day spent shivering in the rain on the docks , negotiating the terms under which the goddamned chandler from liverpool would actually deliver the barrels of salt pork for which he had been contracted , and the terms under which the ship 's crew-contracted to carry said barrels-would actually load the goddamned barrels into the goddamned hold of the goddamned ship and batten down the goddamned hatches on top of them .