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efficient enough when we were in waters where there was a steady 

 breeze, for then we could force the air down it with a fan ; but 

 in where we were it was of no use. If, by chance, there was wind 

 now and again, it merely took the form of a squall from either 

 shore, and in such a case the fan was useless. 



When the fore-cabin was built, a ventilator was put in, which 

 was as simple as it was practical. On the port side of the main- 

 hatch was made a hole twelve inches in diameter, and from this 

 was carried up a metal cylinder, which was . screwed fast to the 



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deck. Descending perpendicularly from this, and about six inches 

 outside the wall of the cabin, was a wooden shaft, which com- 

 municated with the lower deck, part of which formed the floor of 

 the cabin. About three inches above the lower deck a metal tube, 

 eight inches in diameter, was joined to the shaft, and was brought 

 in at a right angle through the wall of the cabin ; eight inches or 

 so inside this, the tube ended in a right-angled bend upwards. 

 Where it passed through the cabin, the shaft was provided with a 

 damper, by means of which the supply of air could be regulated 

 at will. 



