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found oo wey to. the crevts quarters p could hear the clinking of glesses and the songs of: room. Severc] tinas the stip latt its course. But we 7] de Janeiro through a11 kinds of fortunate civeustancese ‘g0unted one hundred cases less champagne when unloadinge’ ouldn't find a better crew in 3cxii, he had to get Chong te » uae We took on over a thousand tons of frozen meat for Sarturge® Jaret few cays at sea the worry about bad pay and uncertain old aze overcase : UB, and one of ua So cespatr put mck too much ol tn the fire, Skeid “ Dlazed out of the stack over the whole upper deck, 80 that boats, “dG "‘wridgo and chart room burned up. To keep from sinking, we took % ‘in putting the fire out, in order to seve much of the deck, but we 4%: erunbled about bad pey (uncertain future) and didn't exert ourselves .i/4 too much. It would be easy to rebuild at some coats, wae a money on cur pays them unfit for the @ strunple for life. out, because we Lad to save our strensth. Dynamos require care which not given by whapry people. Yo were then without light. at first me _ used 041 lamps to prevent colliding with other ships, but a tired mate,; < board to save work. About this time, a short distance from Madeira,- “ the meat in the refrigerator began to stink because of the failure of. _ the cynaros. Unfortunately, a dietraught seaman pumped nearly eli the “¢resh weter out instead of the bilge water. ‘There was still enough to drink, but not enough for the boiler. ‘Thus we hed to take salt water: . for stecm, which cause? the pipes to becone stopped with salt. It = * took a Ist of tine te clean then out. We had to do that seven tines. . “ Then there was a breakdown in the engine room. Grinning, we repaired ‘c , thate The Oskave limpsd slowly to tadeira. There were no parts there, ” to make rapairs of the proportion of those now necessary. We simply ae took on water, soze lamps and a little oil for the lamps. "It appeers that the dynanos were completsly ruined and as a result the cooling systen didn't work end the stench of rotting meet became un-~ bearable for our exhausted nerves. The skipper went around with a volver--a sign of insulting mistrust? One of us, beside himself be- ~°/ cause of this urrorth; treatmert, let steam into the pipes of the oaling , System so that the damned meat wes at least cooked. 2 ®0n that afternooa, the ortire crew sat end figured diligently wha’ ‘p eargo would cost the United States. Toward the end of the trip, :. gtk | were even successful in improving our record: Off the const @il gave out so that we had to be towed to Hamburg at great oem atinking meat caused our skippar a great deal cf worry. Tha, to the graveyard. Amy child, we thought, could thus ses was really too smil."