72 AGREMENS OF THE "ANNA LOUISA." 



down in fiye and a half feet length ; each, hunk 

 has a locker in front of it nine inches hroad, 

 and any one unfortunate enough to have to 

 try, will find that any posture is preferahle to 

 sitting long on a locker nine inches in hreadth, 

 with a perpendicular hack. The cahin from 

 end to end hetween these lockers is ahout 

 7x4, hut nearly half of this length is occupied 

 hy 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 hunk 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 



