72 AGREMENS OF THE "ANNA LOUISA." 



down in five and a half feet length ; each bunk 

 has a locker in front of it nine inches broad, 

 and any one unfortunate enough to have to 

 try, will find that any posture is preferable 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 

 7 X 4j 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, &c., 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, coffee, and sugar," 

 magazine of powder, bags of shot, &c. &c. 

 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 stimu- 

 lant we indulge in ; and side by side with the 

 more generous fluid is a bottle of chloride of 

 lime with the cork out, for the purpose of mol- 

 lifying, in some measure, the awful effluvium 

 caused by the commingling of putrid walrus oil 

 and bilge water — vain hope ! Add to these 

 little agremens the fact that the thermometer 



