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for bedchambers. A of boxes serves one as a
bedstead: on that lay the matress belonging to my cart.
I squeeze in through a square hole just big enough to
receive my body: it requires no small exertion to
turn my head one way and my feet the other so as
to lay myself at full length: this trask accomplished
there may be at the outside utmost from 6 to 8 or so
inches between the my head as I lie and the tester of
my bed or the ceiling of my bedchamber, call it
which you please. As to the dining room to account for the
length of it, you must consider that the passengers for
whose use it was calculated sit with their legs folded under
them like Taylors, and know no such things as Chairs
Being a bran-new ship and this his first voyage, the
handsome carpet, and another spread doubled over it by way
: but this terrifying appearance was much the
when upon taking possession of it we found
carpets taken up and the greatest part of the space
filled up by the mouth,
hampers bags sacks and baskets that were necessary for
the containing of our provisions, together with such
parts of our baggage as are in most immediate
use. Our provisions are mostly cold: but the Captain
agreed to allow us the occasional use of his kitchen, upon our
giving him a solumn promise not to introduce into
his ship of any thing that could come under
the denomination of pork. Of the construction of the habitable
part if such it may be called, of the vessel
it is impossible to give a satisfactory description without
a drawing: This cabbin of ours which forms the principal
part of it has no windows looking to the sea
the roof of it forms a sort of quarter-deck: over it moves
the helm, and here in the open air the Captain with
his mess-mates make their meals. The vessel projecting
aslant over the water gives room at this end for a
of oblong vessels boxes rising one above another the whole
breadth of it; the lowermost, a little wider than a
man's back is broad, screens the for a dormitory
and occasionally in a fit of laziness for a
dining-room. Those above are too narrow to serve
for any thing but shelves and lockers — They are
ornamented with rows of tassels and miniature balustrades.
The Cabbin table, adapted to the posture
of the guests for whom it was designed, is raised but
two or three inches from the floor: the low boxes &
parcels which serve us instead of chairs giving us a
sort of mean elevation between the Turkish of the
Christian mode, my camp-stool reversed gives a suitable
elevation to the table. A piece of broken earthenware
which I found on the shore at <unclear>Fochig forms a candlestick much preferable to the
filthy ricketty brass one to which it has succeeded.
Considering the ships size the number of passengers
you will acknowledge is not small: in the
when they are stretched out at their length
to
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Correspondence |
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Samuel Bentham |
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