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to be charged any thing extra, for a full proportion of 

 servants ; and baggage should be at discretion. If, however, 

 you must pay, the rate should never exceed 100 Rupees a 

 head for servants, the captain providing every thing ; but 

 do not trust to a general promise verbally given, that your 

 servants shall be fed ! They are under your protection. 

 The captain will desire his steward " to look after them," 

 and he will consider a table spoonful or two of ill boiled rice 

 a handsome provision, with some broken meat and biscuit for 

 the day ; or the ship's allowance of salt junk, biscuit and 

 grog will be offered! I would however advise an agreement 

 (to be duly entered into by both parties) that coarse rice, 

 chillies and curry materials (usually laid in for public fol- 

 lowers), with a supply of saltfish, and a specific quantity of 

 biscuit and water per head, should be allowed daily, and 

 some broken fresh meat, once or oftener in the week, from 

 the cuddy table. Such an arrangement would tend to keep 

 your servants in health and good humour, and would not ruin 

 the skipper ! An iron pot, or sauce pan, should be provided 

 for the servants to cook in, and a specific hour or two stipu- 

 lated for, in which they might cook in the galley without 

 being interfered with. Give the native men a 3 or 5 gallons 

 keg to keep water in (with means of slinging it, and advise 

 them to take it on board filled with water) and a strong 

 vessel, such as a pewter guglet or closed tub, in which they 

 may receive and carry their allowance of water from the 

 hold. Their berth should be distinctly allotted, and their 

 trunks deposited and cleated down there before sailing, or 

 you will have everlasting requisitions for their boxes. 



" The women would eat their meals with the cuddy servants, 

 and their allowance of water is generally served out, with 

 that of the family, to the cabin. 



<f As you will probably be one winter at the Cape, both men 

 and women should have warm clothing ; indeed they would 

 in all probability require it on the voyage, if leaving India 

 in the beginning of the year. Flannels to be worn under chintz, 

 &c. are recommended, and a coarse warm wrapper or shawl ; 

 worsted stockings for the voyage, as they are to be had of 

 that quality in abundance at the Cape^ and reasonable in 



