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energy. I find upon my return the brig so stowed and 
refitted that four days would prepare us for sea. The 
quarter-deck alone is now boarded in; and here all the 
officers and sick are sojourning. The wind makes this 
wooden shanty a somewhat airy retreat; but, for the 
THE BRIG IN MAY. 
health of our maimed scorbutic men, it is infinitely 
preferable to the less-ventilated quarters below. Some 
of the crew, with one stove, are still in the forecastle; 
but the old cabin is deserted. 
“I left Hans as hunter. I gave him a regular ex¬ 
emption from all other labor, and a promised present to 
his lady-love on reaching Fiskernaes. He signalized his 
