Sentence:  A true Chinese junk is a great curiosity; the model must have been taken originally from a bread-trough, being broad and square at both ends—when light, (I speak of a large one,) it is full thirty feet from the surface of the water to the <WSD>tafferel</WSD>, or the highest part of the poop. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The taffrail.