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Outward Bound

CHAPTER II
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This cabin was twenty-two feet long and fifteen feet wide, with no waste room, as in the after cabin, caused by the rounding in of the ship's counter.

On the sides were five state rooms, besides a pantry for the steward, and a dispensary for the surgeon.
The forward room on the starboard side was occupied by Mr.Lowington alone; the next on the same side by the chaplain and doctor; and each of the three on the port side by two of the teachers.

This cabin was elegantly finished and furnished, and the professors were delighted with its cheerful and pleasant aspect.
From the main cabin, as that of the "faculty" was called, were two doors, opening into the steerage, fifty-two feet in length by fifteen feet in width of clear space between the berths, which diminished to nine feet abreast of the foremast.

This apartment was eight feet high, and was lighted in part by a large skylight midway between the fore and main mast, and partly by bull's eyes in the side of the ship.

There were seventy-two berths, placed in twelve rooms, opening from passage-ways, which extended athwartships from the main steerage, and were lighted by the bull's eyes.


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