The Argosy — page 62: what you’re looking at

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The Cruise of the Reserve Squadron. AQ great institution. There are, to begin with, the Captain’s quarters, in the stern of the vessel, and communicating with the main deck. Here, night and day stands a sentry, keeping guard, as it were, over the monarch of the ship. For every captain on board a man-of-war is a King. The captain’s quarters are comparatively large and airy, and consist of several—vooms, as a landsman would call them. On the other hand, being over the screw, they come in for all the plunging and vibration of that most useful and ingenious, but most unpleasant invention. Again, being immediately under the upper deck—which, as it were, forms the ceiling of the Captain’s quarters, Sr dU) WI eae ont 4% oe —=s . J La. 3 Dart Y> ” ° . she * on == x - i= , my: ‘ ; a T= a>: ants . : P y - 7. 4 | a oe . 8 ‘ int : (ee Be » : . ne ame LTA J » Bt yt Fe ay - . . “ r ® . LA ..* J av) 2 N 7 ees = ght: ! Sh P : ' gs ra 3 5 Fre, * LS 7 ae Aes SS. ae : aes ag a hae ae WS sng Bo deed 2% « PLD aie ant we = . oe - = ‘ | 2 e Le, s Me he” . Ay (yh) 9 ae —— (A pane A ae —ir a — =s_8 2 - - = a “4 P = LA, -_ 7. a fl ll ” bd % cae ag Birr, s , VY s a 4 ra . SE £ ¢- =~" ee ee wa - seg tare 5 aie apiag e t Paap Ot pice ee a Lh rye 1% she ; } a He et ', e* ‘ = —_ PEA Le bi ¢p ifr rats bey Pepe nite . nie - ee 4 . OO Bow AND ARROW CASTLE. every sound above is heard, ten times magnified. So that occasion- ally you may fancy yourself in a Dante’s Inferno, tormented both above and below, no rest anywhere. All sounds had a way of amplifying themselves in the Captain’s cabin. One night Wakeham, the gunnery leutenant, went off in the steam pinnace to discharge atorpedo. He declared that he was two miles away, and yet the horrible thing shook everything upon the Captain’s table and sideboard, and sent us all three jumping out of our chairs like rockets. No warning had been given to us, and you might have fancied that the torpedo had exploded within ten yards of the stern. When my old friend Broadley left the Defence on his promotion (the news reached him at the Alhambra, of all lovely places in the VOL. XXXV. E ‘ EONNICLOO SS (CO)