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not a wet jacket is inflicted, nor a meal prorogued 

 wantonly. Jack, who is burdened with no care for 

 himself, becomes devoted to his officers, who care for 

 him ready at their bidding to jump overboard, or to 

 turn to and get the mainmast out all standing. A 

 well-ordered man-of-war, where this feeling prevails 

 from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, affords per- 

 haps the finest exhibition of harmony of purpose of 

 which our nature is capable. The inspection of a 

 single regiment is insufficient ground whereon to 

 found general observations, but so far as this one 

 specimen is concerned, we can speak of the Turks 

 as having made some slight approach to this most 

 desirable condition. We were surprised to find an 

 Osmanli in the position of surgeon to the establish- 

 ment, because the religious principles of such a one 

 are understood to be invincibly opposed to the prose- 

 cution of the studies that must qualify for such a 

 post. Without dissection what can they know of 

 anatomy] and unskilled in anatomy, how can they 

 guide the knife healingly among the intricacies of the 

 human frame ? Yet all the operative surgery in this 

 hospital is the care of the native surgeon, by whom the 

 most formidable operations are successfully performed. 

 The best proof that these medicos are up to their 

 work, is found in the fact that the sick-list was very 

 small. It was quite surprising to see how few beds 

 were occupied. Indeed the men are so well clothed, 

 well fed, and lodged so airily, that their tenure of 



