Or if he hears any noise in the galley, or even on the lower deck, he can walk forward till he is able to peer down the fore-hatchway, by stooping under the bows of the boat on the booms.

Most of this fidget probably arises, not so much from any wish to find fault with what is wrong, as to maintain what is right.

The true preventive service of an officer is to interpose his superintending vigilance between the temptation, on the part of the men, to err, and their first motion towards offence.

Were this principle fully acted up to in all ships, how rapidly might not our punishments subside! At four, or half-past four in the afternoon, the merry pipe to supper awakes the sleepers, arrests the peripatetics, and once more clusters young and old round the mess-table.

At sunset the drum beats to quarters, when the men's names are carefully called over, and the sobriety of each ascertained.