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ring by divisions--The fourth commandment--Short services recommended--Order for rigging--Scrubbing and sweeping--Sunday muster--Jack's dandyism--Jack brought up with a round turn--Mustering at divisions--Inspection--The marines--Round the decks--The sick-bay--Lower deck--Below--Cockpit--The gun-room--Quarter deck CHAPTER XI. The ship church--Rigging the church--Short services recommended--Short sermons recommended--Religious duties necessary to discipline--Church service interrupted--The day of rest CHAPTER XII. Naval ratings and sea pay--Mustering clothes--Between decks on Sunday--Piping to supper--Mustering by lists--A seaman disrated and rerated--Ratings of seamen--Tendency to do right--Examining stores--Captain's duties--Clothes' muster--Responsibility--A sailor's kit--A sailor's habits--Mizen-top dandies--Hammocks--Piping the bags down--Pressing emigrants--A Scotchman's kit--Improved clothes' muster CHAPTER XIII. Sailors' pets--Purchasing a monkey--Jacko's attractions--Gets monkey's allowance--Jacko and the marines--Jacko's revenge--Jacko turns on his friend--Spills the grog--Is pursued, but is pardoned--Condemned to die--Commuted to teeth-drawing--Surgeon's assistant appealed to--He can't bite--The travelled monkey--Trick on the marines--Its consequences--A potent dose--Its operations--Jack's superstitions--The grunter pet--Jean's advocate--Her good qualities--Jean's obesity, and its attractions--Her death and burial--Well ballasted CHAPTER XIV. Doubling the Cape--Southern constellations--Intelligent chief officer--Sailors and their friends--Parting company--The cape--Simon's town--A fresh breeze--Rising to a gale--All hands shorten sail--Value of experience to an officer--Taking in reefs--Taking in mainsail--Heaving the log--Before the gale--Effects of a gale--Value of a chronometer proved by the want of one--Awful catastrophe CHAPTER XV. Suggestions towards diminishing the number and severity of Naval punishments--Corporal punishment--The author's own case--An old shipmate--Admiralty regulations--Appeal to officers to avoid precipitation--Dangers of precipitation--Instance of its dangers--A considerate captain--A case for pardon--An obdurate officer--Pardon granted--Retrieving of character CHAPTER XVI. Bombay-
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