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operations have been mustered at division, attended 
prayers, and engaged during the forenoon in their 
various and requisite duties. At noon, dinner is 
piped, and although consisting, as it usually does, of 
either salt junk and duff, or fat, greasy salt pork 
and pea soup, there are few men healthier than 
the sailor. Grog-time comes next (when half a gill 
of rum with two parts of water is supplied to each 
man), and, with the hour for smoking, constitutes 
a pleasant break in the day. Duty is resumed again 
at 1.30, and various drills occupy the afternoon until 
4.30, when all hands assemble at their station, with 
rifle, cutlass, and pistol for inspection by their divi- 
sional officer. 
The inspection over (we will presume the dredge 
to be up, and the excitement of the haul subsided), 
“ Hands ! make sail,” is the pipe. Steam is dis- 
pensed with, in a short time the sail is all spread, 
and with a favouring breeze we are running on our 
course at an eight-knot speed. Supper is now pre- 
pared, consisting of tea and biscuit, after which, 
until 9, smoking is permitted, hammocks having 
been piped down at 7.30. The commanding officer 
usually goes the round of the decks, to ascertain 
that all is correct, when those off duty are expected 
to turn-in their hammocks, and so ends the day and 
its duties. 
At 6 p.m. the officers usually dine together, when 
the incidents of the day, the results of the dredging, 
