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general fleeping birth for our mefs, allowing 

 to each his appropriate drefTing room between 

 the feveral guns : and, thus, w^ere we fpeedily 

 accommodated with five diftindl; apartments, 

 confifting of a long narrow dining room, and, 

 as we were affured, four excellent bed-rooms. 



We were both amufed and gratified in 

 obferving the expertnefs of the fhip's car- 

 penters, and all the men employed upon this 

 occafion ; and it afforded us great pleafure to 

 remark how prompt and obedient they were 

 in executing the commands of their officers. 

 On board a tranfport, or a merchantman, 

 feveral days would have been expended, in 

 preparing what was here completed in a 

 fingle hour, - , 



As we are only frelli-water failors, it was, 

 ; hinted, for our information, that the aft, or 

 flernmofl: cot, being the upper birth on the ftar- 

 board fide, was deemed the place of honor, and 

 hence appropriated to the ufe of the captain, 

 always, when the officers fieep In the vs^ard- 

 roora. My ambition did not lead me to contend 

 for this fickening poft of honor, therefore, in 



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