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an opinion. We plowed along bravely for a week or more, and without any conflict of jurisdiction

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among the captains worth mentioning, the passengers soon learned to accommodate themselves to their

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new circumstances, and life in the ship became nearly as systematically monotonous as the

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routine of a barrack. I do not mean that it was dull, for it was not entirely so by

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any means. But there was a good deal of sameness about it. As is always the fashion at sea,

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the passengers shortly began to pick up sailor terms, a sign that they were beginning to

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feel at home. Half -past -six was no longer half -past -six to these pilgrims from New England, the South

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and the Mississippi Valley, it was seven bells. Eight, twelve, and four o 'clock were

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eight bells. The captain did not take the longitude at nine o 'clock, but at two bells.

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They spoke glibly of the after -cabin, the forward -cabin, port and starboard, and the

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at seven bells the first gong rang