IIG 
REOUGANIZATION' OF THE SQUADRON. 
vessels of Perry’s squadron. The Kennedy was sent up 
to Canton, and her officers divided among the other 
vessels to till vacancies. An indescribable state of un- 
certainty and confusion existed for weeks : no one knew 
which vessel to prefer, or where to stop wlicn lie had his 
orders. Every day some officer was getting tired of Ins 
sliip and aj>plying to be ordered to another; or sickness 
or a detaclimeut from the squadron would force Com- 
mander Rodgers to order some one tem2:>orarily to fill the 
vacancy. AVe knew not where to keep our clothes, where 
to pay our mess-bill, hardly where to eat: it was nothing 
but change — change — change ; and, what made it worse, 
it was nearly all change. Finally, things seemed 
to be settled, and I awoke one morning to find Stevens 
in command of the Hancock, and myself as her first 
lieutenant. And now, as the remainder of this book 
will be chiefly made up from what I saw and did while 
attached to that vessel, I will give a list of her officers, 
ice., and then a brief idea of the old tub herself: — 
Lieutenant Commanding, II. K. Stevens, Captain. 
Acting Master, A. AV. Habersham, Lieutenant. 
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Pui*ser, 
Assistant Surgeon, 
Draughtsman, 
H. St. Geo. Hunter, 
E. 0. Cares, Sailing-Master. 
Geo. H. lIiTcniE. 
Gerard Alexander. 
A. E. Hartman. 
First Assistant Engineer, E. Lawton. 
Second “ “ D. B. McComb. 
Third “ L. AVilltams. 
Assistant Naturalist, L. M. Squires. 
