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neighbors. Split peas and portable soup (bouillon), with fresh 

 and dried fruit, have been valuable stores. 



As the captain desired us to use the quarter-deck privileges, 

 we have associated as we pleased with the first-cabin passengers, 

 and found several valuable acquaintances among them. 



Our room-mate, a young Irish surgeon, is a very good fellow, 

 apparently of high professional attainments, and possessed of a 

 power of so concentrating his attention on a book or whatever he 

 is engaged with, as not to be easily disturbed, and a general 

 politeness in yielding to the tastes of the majority that we are 

 greatly beholden to. He is a devoted admirer of Smith O'Brien, 

 and thinks the Irish rising of '48 would have been successful, if 

 he [O'B.] had not been too strictly honest and honorable a man 

 to lead a popular revolt. 



Of his last winter's passage, in an emigrant ship, across the 

 Atlantic, he gives us a thrilling account. 



He had been appointed surgeon of a vessel about to sail from 

 a small port hi Ireland. She was nearly ready for sea, the pas- 

 sengers collecting and stores taken on board, when some discov- 

 ery was made that involved the necessity of withdrawing her. 

 Another ship was procured from Liverpool, and the stores, pas- 

 sengers, doctor and all, hastily transferred to her in the night, 

 as soon as she arrived. They got to sea, and he found there was 

 hardly a particle of anything in the medicine chest. He begged 

 the captain to put back, but the captain was a stubborn, reckless, 

 devil-may-care fellow, and only laughed at him. That very night 

 the cholera broke out. He went again to the captain, he be- 

 seeched him, he threatened him; he told him that on his head 



must be the consequences; the captain didn't care a rope 



yarn for the consequences, he would do anything else to oblige 

 the doctor, but go back ? not he ! The doctor turned the pigs 

 out of the long-boat, and made a temporary hospital of it. It 



