A number of good shots were made by different gunners.

Enough to show that, amateur tars that we were, there was the making of good gunners in us.

As the "Kid," in his overweening confidence, said, "Ain't we peaches?
When we get down south we will have a little target practise, and the 'dagos' will be so scared that they will haul down their colors tight away." During the day we steamed slowly along, a bright lookout being kept by the men at the foremast-head for suspicious steamers.

After dinner at eight bells (12 o'clock), the smoking lamp, which hangs near the scuttle butt aft, was kept lighted about fifteen minutes.

Smoking is allowed aboard only when the smoking lamp is lighted, and as "Hay" was wont to say, it was lighted "when you did not want to smoke." At ten minutes past one "turn to" was piped by the boatswain's mates, followed by the call for sweepers.