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is foiuied by the bulwark cutting it off from the foreho'd. Before the center of this stands 

 the companion ladder, which leads to the deck. On the right of the companion the stove was 

 placed; an ordinary large sized stove, peculiar only in having a low railing placed around its 

 top to prevent pots and kettles from sliding about in a heavy seaway. To the left of the com- 

 panion was a passage-way into the fore-hold. A sliding door was placed at this gangway, but it 

 was never used, so that I was ignorant of its existence until I had spent two months in the vessel. 



For storage room in the forecastle the locker just aft the starboard bunks is used for dishes, 

 knives, forks, spoons, &c. Between this and the fore hold bulkhead were some open shelves, on 

 which some of the provisions, as beans, peas, tea, and coffee, were kept. The horizontal locker 

 spoken of as passing around inside the bunks was used for vegetables, as potatoes, turnips, &c. 

 Ou the starboard side aft this ran only as far as the upright locker, and before the shelves was 

 replaced by a low shelf pierced with holes, on which tea and coffee kettles were stood. Finally, 

 one more locker was placed upon the horizontal locker against the bulkhead and beside the door- 

 way into the fore-hold. This rose as high as the deck above, and was used for the temporary stor- 

 age of the food that had not been eaten at the regular meal. It was usually kept well supplied 

 with bread, cake, or pie, and meat, so as to furnish a lunch to any one who might be hungry between 

 meals. 



FORE HOLD. The gangway from the forecastle passed into the fore-hold. It was not a sepa- 

 rate part of the hold, but merely a small space divided from the hold by a tier of barrels reaching 

 one above another nearly to the deck. This little barrier of barrels, containing water, meat, flour, 

 kerosene, &c., left a sort of space clear for the storage of other supplies and for some of the opera- 

 tions of the steward. The right side of this space was occupied by a bin containing coal for the 

 galley stove. Against the port side of the vessel, were shelves for lard and butter tubs and sundry 

 other smaller stores, while barrels of pork, beef, and knuckles stood beneath the shelf. Just in 

 front of one as he passed through the gangway from the forecastle stood a barrel of flour and sugar. 

 A large bread-board placed across the top of one of these furnished him a table for making bread 

 or cake. 



MAIN AND AFTER HOLD. I have spoken of the fore-hold as if it were a distinct part of the vessel. 

 In one sense it is, though its separation from the other parts of the hold is not by any such clear 

 boundary as a bulkhead, but by a mere tier of barrels. The remaining space of the hold was 

 divided into the "main" and "after" hold by an imaginary line, which was not, so far as I ever 

 learned; generally agreed upon, but which practically cut the center of the mainmast. The main- 

 hold, entered from the deck by the main-hatch, was a large space, not subdivided by partitions into 

 compartments, and extending aft from the fore-hold as far as the mainmast or thereabouts. The 

 remaining space of the hold formed the after-hold. In its afterpart this hold was divided up into 

 pens for storage of bait and ice. A few partitions also extended from the sides toward the vessel's 

 center in the remaining part of this hold. These made very convenient little compartments for the 

 storage of salt during the outward voyage and later in the season were filled with fish. These 

 holds in the vessel, as in all the fishing schooners, occupy the largest available space possible, and 

 encroach so much upon the forecastle and cabin as to make them very much cramped up. The 

 hold of our little schooner one of only 70 tons could carry with ease one hundred and forty or 

 even one hundred and fifty thousand pounds of fish. 



CABIN. The extreme afterpart of the vessel was occupied by the cabin, an apartment 9 or 

 10 feet long by about 7 wide. The entrance to the cabin was by a companion ladder in the center 

 of the after end of the room. In the center stood a stove; directly in front of this and against the 

 bulkhead was a locker, used as a receptacle for tools and nails, and its top provided with a leaf 



