i 4 SUNSHINE AND SPORT IN 



i, 800 Ibs. Ham 

 5,000 Bacon 

 30,000 Eggs 



2,200 Ibs. 3rd Class Coffee 

 1,800 ist Class Coffee 

 270 barrels Flour 

 35 boxes Apples 

 24 barrels Apples 

 40 boxes Oranges 

 500 Ibs. English Grapes 

 12 boxes Foreign Grapes 

 10 Lemons 

 15 Pears 

 3 50 Ibs. Tomatoes 



12 bunches Bananas 

 550 Ibs. Nuts 

 26 tons Potatoes 

 4,800 Ibs. Butter 

 5,600 Moist Sugar 

 1,896 Refined Sugar 

 5,600 Cooking Sugar 



Such is the raw material, or part of it, that goes 

 to the daily making of three admirable menus, with 

 corresponding plenty elsewhere in the ship. To 

 some the merest glance at such Gargantuan provi- 

 sion for a week at sea will bring memories of 

 dreadful foodless hours that were spent in tossing 

 on ruffled bunks regardless of the steward's over- 

 tures, but others will scan the list with the grateful 

 memory that if there was not much else to do 

 during the passage, there was at least enough 

 to eat. 



At length we sighted Sandy Hook and halted 

 at the Quarantine to undergo the not too severe 

 medical and fiscal examination prescribed by the 



