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Here, with no possibility of classification and separate 

 quarters, with, few or no books, or opportunity to use them if 

 they were possessed, with the constant din of roystering dis- 

 order and superabundant profanity, with no Sabbath, no 

 prayer, no words and efforts by superiors to win them to some- 

 thing better and worthier, three-fourths of their forty months' 

 absence are passed. "When they are on shore, or lying in port 

 to refit, intemperance, and other abominations, vary, while 

 they by no means improve their condition. 



