For our quintette there was a cabin six feet by twelve, and each person had a sleeping room to himself.
Colonel Bulkley planned the cabin of the Wright, and I shall always consider it a misfortune that the Engineer-in-Chief was only five feet seven in his boots rather than six feet and over like myself.

The cabin roof was high enough for the colonel, but too low for me.

Under the skylight was the only place below deck where I could stand erect.
The sleeping rooms were too short for me, and before I could lie, at full length in my berth, it was necessary to pull away a partition near my head.

The space thus gained was taken from a closet containing a few trifles, such as jugs of whiskey, and cans of powder.
Fortunately no fire reached the combustibles at any time, or this book might not have appeared.
[Illustration: OVER SIX FEET.] There was a forward cabin occupied by the chief clerk, the draughtsman, the interpreter, and the artist of the expedition, with the first and second officers of the vessel.

Sailors, firemen, cook and cabin boys all included, there were forty-five persons on board.
Everybody in the complement being masculine, we did not have a single flirtation during the voyage.
I never sailed on a more active ship than the Wright.