This cabin was richly but plainly fitted up, and was furnished well enough for a drawing-room on shore.

It was for the use of the juvenile officers of the ship, fifteen in number, who were to hold their positions as rewards of merit.

The captain had a room to himself, while each of the other apartments was to accommodate two officers.
On the left of the companion-way, descending the stairs, was the "old folks' cabin," as it was called by the students.

It was in the locality corresponding to that occupied by the ward room of a man-of-war.

Though the after cabin is the place of honor on board a ship, Mr.Lowington had selected the ward room for himself and the teachers, in preference to the after cabin, because it was next to the steerage, which was occupied by the larger portion of the pupils, and because the form of the ship did not contract the dimensions of the state rooms.