In the outer cabin nearest to the engine-room, and entered immediately by the ladder descending from the deck, was fixed a low central table.

In all we found abundance of those soft exquisitely covered and embroidered cushions which in Mars, as in Oriental countries, are the most essential and most luxurious furniture.

The officer had quarters in the stern of the vessel, which was an exact copy of the fore part.

But the first of these rooms was considered as public or neutral ground.
Leaving Eveena below, I went on deck to examine, before she started, the construction of the vessel.

Her entire length was about one hundred and eighty feet, her depth, from the flat deck to the wide keel, about one half of her breadth; the height of the cabins not much more than eight feet; her draught, when most completely lightened, not more than four feet.