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a .. found tee wos to. the crevts sgurters. p could near the clinking of glesses and the songe of: care mo in the officars' quarters and even on the bridge and in ‘the : ot room. Severcl tinas the skip latt ite courses But we res BE e de Janeiro through all kinds of fortunate circumstances. | howe ounted one hundred cases less champagne when unloadinge” But s riprssoouldn't find a better crew in Rczii, he had to get along fu “~ (He Te took on over a thousand tons of frozen meat for Sarturge A ~ few cays at sea the worry about bad pay and uncertain old aze aes: . WB, and one of vs in cespair put meh too much of] in the fire, " blazed out of the stack over the whole upper deck, so that boate, He fey " "wrkdgo and chart room burned ups To keep from sinking, “we took part (#! Ne 7 in putting the fire out, in order to seve much of the he deck, but we ee ° :'2°. grumbled about bad pay {uncertain future) and didn't exert ourselves .27 4 >, 00 much, It would be easy to rebuild at some costs Pst Rook iat ao _Woney on cur Pays an Too mich worry in the prime of fe makes men age quickly and makes ‘ them unfit for the struggle for life. So one fine day thedynamos ‘burned: - . out, because we Lad to save our strenzth. Dynamos require care which is - - not given by wkepry people. Ye were then without light. at first we: sae * ased ofl tarps to. prevent colliding with other ships, but a tired nateses: “ @isheartened by the thoughts of his unhappy old age, threw the Lamps | orem ~ "board to save works About this time, a short distance from Madeira, - ; the meat in the refrigcrator began to stink because of the failure of. “eh “| the cynaros. Unfortunately, a dietraught seaman pumped nearly eli the “7"* “fresh weter out instead of the bilge water. ‘There was still enough to ™ | drink, Put not enough for the boiler. ‘Thus we hed to take salt water” .- _ for stezm, which cause? the pipes to becore stopped with salt. It ~ peer a ~ took a ict of time to clean them out. We had to do that seven tinss.. 7 ’ Then there was 2 breakdown in the engine room. Grinning, we repaired -~— that. The Oskave limped slowly to ‘adeira. There were no parts there... . %© make r2pairs of the proportion of those now necessary. We simply sei took on water, some lamps and a little oil for the lamps. : aes “It apperrs that the dynanos were completsly ruined and as & + ‘the cooling systen didn't work end the stench of rotting meet became un~ — aes bearable for ou exhausted nerves. The skipper went around with a ree. wolvere=a sign of insulting mistrust: One of us, beside himself bem 72: cause of this unworthy treatuert, let steam into the pipes af the oaking: , Syaten so that the damned m2at was at least cooked. 7 pee bus man aye oe 900 that afternoon, the ortire crew sat end figured diligently what te . ‘eargo would cost the Unitec States. Toward the end of the trip, : uf = were even successful in improving our record: Off the coast | hie of} gave out so that we had to be towed to Hamburgat great 0 Me atinking meat caused our skipper a great deal of worry. Thaw” mk to the graveyard. Am child, we thoucht, could thus one. Ce.