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able to sitting long on a locker nine inches in 

 breadth, with a perpendicular back. The cabin, 

 from end to end, between these lockers, is about 

 7x4, but nearly half of this length is occupied by 

 the angular projections forming the counter of the 

 vessel, over which is the table, so that the space 

 available for moving about, washing and dressing, 

 etc., is exactly four feet square. Behind the after 

 end of each bunk is a small open space filled by a 

 barrel of biscuits, jar of butter, canisters of tea, cof- 

 fee, and sugar, magazine of powder, bags of shot, 

 etc., etc. Our guns, pouches, and spare clothes hang 

 on nails inside the bed-places and in the corners. 

 Aft amidships, in a slip of leather nailed to the 

 wall, hangs a bottle of brandy, the sole stimulant 

 we indulge in ; and side by side with the more gen- 

 erous fluid is a bottle of chloride of. lime, with the 

 cork out, for the purpose of mollifying, in some 

 measure, the awful effluvium caused by the commin- 

 gling of putrid walrus oil and bilge-water. Vain 

 hope ! Add to these little agremens the fact that 

 the thermometer averages 40° in the cabin, and I 

 think it will be generally conceded that we are pay- 

 ing pretty dear for the pleasure of hunting walrus- 

 es in the Arctic seas. I must not omit to mention 

 that the cabin has two redeeming points, viz., there 

 are no vermin, and the wood of which the beams 

 and boarding, is composed is of a very light and 

 soft description, eminently adapted for "whittling 1 " 

 and engraving, and in these intellectual and scien- 



