Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 218
h wooden bunks, where the men hadto live, there was little ventilation and no com-fort. The men preferred to sleep on the decks,on top of deck-houses, and in the boats, andthere was very little attempt made to restrainthem from so doing. After we left the wharf and were anchoredout in the bay, the… … THE OFFICERS MESS. canned roast beef. Knobloch, a trooper fur-nished from the membership of the New YorkStock Exchange, and the very best swimmer Ihave ever seen, disdaining to half starve in aland of plenty, quietly swam ashore, a distanceof perhaps half a mile, and dined on the fat ofthe land at…
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