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me, and to the absence of all those marine-store smells of paint, pitch, tallow, and new cord-
age, which are to me insupportable. Something is also to be put down to freedom from all
restraint of dress, hours of meals, &c., and to the civility and obliging disposition of the cap-
tain. I had agreed to have my meals with him, but whenever I wished it I had them in my
own berth, and at what hours I felt inclined. The crew were all civil and good-tempered, and
with very little discipline everything went on smoothly, and the vessel was kept very clean
and in pretty good order, so that on the whole I was much delighted with the trip, and was
inclined to rate the luxuries of the semi-barbarous prau as surpassing those of the most mag-
nificent screw-steamer, that highest result of our civilization.
