14 SUNSHINE AND SPORT IN 



1, 800 lbs. Ham 

 5,000 „ Bacon 

 30,000 Eggs 

 2,200 lbs. 3rd Class Coffee 

 1,800 „ 1st Class Coffee 

 270 barrels Flour 

 35 boxes Apples 

 24 barrels Apples 

 40 boxes Oranges 

 500 lbs. English Grapes 

 12 boxes Foreign Grapes 

 10 „ Lemons 

 15 „ Pears 

 350 lbs. Tomatoes 

 12 bunches Bananas 

 550 lbs. Nuts 

 26 tons Potatoes 

 4,800 lbs. 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- 

 tion 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 



