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Show trary, the luck is against them, the ship is not rigged right. There is one way only for a passenger passen-ger to escape the discomforts certain to arise from enforced association with uncongenial men, and that is by taking congenial companions alo Let him take his best friend, but no woman, save one fearless of danger and physically physic-ally and mentally capable of enduring hardship, should be carried away on a sailing ship. In the matter of food the passenger is sure to suffer, but this may be to his advantage. An enforced change of diet will sometimes work wonders. The fare of an ordinary ship consists of bread, beef, pork, peas, beans, onions, oatmeal, eornmeal, sugar, tea, and coffee, with now and then some canned goods. Many ships have better bet-ter fare than this, but more have worse. The chief objection which a landsman makes to ship fare is the manner of cooking. The ship's cook boils the ham, boils the beef, boils the pork, even boils the beefsteak when in port. The pudding is boiled and so is the tea. Then, too, everything possible possi-ble is flavored with onions. In a voyage voy-age of two months' duration once made by the writer, he ate onions perforce every day of the voyage, and on most of the days twice. Should the ship's captain happen to take a dislike to the passenger, he could make the unfortunate landsman miserable in a hundred ways, against which there would be but one defence; the passenger would have to thrash the captain into a stuto of terror. It takes a oretlv pood flirhter tn whin t.hn 'sea-going for health. I HOW TO GET READY FOR IT AND WHAT TO EXPECT. Tilings Worth Considering Before s Start U Made Take a Sailing Ship tf Tol Want a Complete Change of Surroundings. Certainly if an entire change of t-roundings t-roundings and associations will benefit the sick, there is no way in which sucW, a change can be more readily made b an ordinary citizen than by going to sea in a sailing ship. To go to sea in a passenger-carrying steamer is not to make a long voyage. Moreover, tho change in diet is not apt to bo worth mentioning, because passengers on steamers commonly live higher than they do at home. The first thing, then, for a man to do who wishes to make a long sea voyage voy-age is to decide how long a voyage he should make, and then choose a destination. des-tination. The cost of such a trip will vary with the tastes or desires of the passenger. pas-senger. Ho can go for nothing, wery often, if he will work his passage as a sailor, and if the ordinary shore eitj. zen wants a change In life so complete as to be absolutely stunning le him try working his passage around the Horn, for instance. But where he would be a real passenger the cost in a sailing ship can be put down at from f 1 to $3 a day for tho passage. For clothing, the passenger can carry such old suits as he has on hand, no matter how old or worn out thev - ' ' o - - J average ship captain. Because a sea voyage is a novelty to a landsman, however, he may find almost al-most endless resources of interest in spite of the inevitable discomforts. He can carry along a quandrant and the necessary books and learu navigation if he will. He can keep a log. He can fish at times and can make a study of sea birds. He can learn how sails are made and a ship rigged, and something of how sailor work is done, lie can turn to at some kinds of work to his own and the ship's advantage. He can study the sea and the seaweed. The chances are that ho will sleep twelve hours out of the twenty-four and read his old magazines during most of his waking hours. If he does not become anxious to reach port, if he can only keep himself in a mental condition where he will want the voyage prolonged, pro-longed, he will get on very well; but before going on a long sea voyage he had better try the shortest one he can hear of say, a passage from the coal docks on the Delaware or about New York harbor to Boston and see how he likes it. may be. The typical skipper mends his sea togs with a palm needle and sail twine, and eats mustard on his duff; ho will not care how tho passenger passen-ger dresses; neither will tho passenger care after a day at sea. It need scarce be said that a suit to be worn in port should be carried, and the passenger passen-ger will make no mistake if he carries the best he has, no matter where he is going. For underwear, woollen goods and a plenty of them may be needed even in a voyage to the south because either at the start or on returning, winter or summer, a cold gale may give one a chill off New York or any northern port. Certain other things should be included in-cluded in an outfit. Vaseline is one thing, and adhesive plaster another. Long fish lines for deep sea fishing might come handy in a calm or for catching gulls, were the passenger so disposed. A dozen or two wire screw hooks will come handy. Above all things an abundant supply of light reading matter is needed, and for this no better or cheaper choice can be made, perhaps, than a stack of old numbers of any first-class magazine. Those cost ten cents each ut a secondhand second-hand book store. n all the preliminaries are over the passenger goes down to the pier and climbs on board and carries his outfit into the cabin. He, will find the cabin door or hatch, as the case may be, pretty low, so that he will smash his derby several times going in and out before he gets accustomed to it. Jhe stateroom will be found narrow, and so will the bunk. The light will be dim, but not frequently this will be an advantage; he will be less likely to see the cockroackes and the soiled condition of the walls. Ho may even want to go to shore and buy a curtain to hang over the port tit gives him light, and sometimes he will want a curtain for the bunk as well. He will put up the wire hooks and hang up his clothing, and stow his reading matter in the bunk under his mattress. Then he will go out on deck and watch the seaman get the ship to sea. They will heave up the anchor, perhaps singing a shanty as they do bo; they will make fast a hawser to big timbers while a tug takes the other end of it; they will set the sails, and away she goes. It will be a most novel and interesting experience ex-perience to the traveler. But once outside the trouble' of the passenger will begin. He will be sea sick, oi course, but that is of little account, even though it last a week. It will do him good. But there are other things to worry him. For instance, in-stance, he is now shut up in very narrow nar-row limits with a set of men who are accustomed to a manner of life wholly different from anything he has ever seen. They are men who have ' 'crawled in at the hawsepipes and worked their way aft," have been common com-mon sailors before they were officers, and still have the habits and tastes of common sailors. It must not be thought that all ship officers come under this description, but a majority of them do. . Ysnkee skippers are more frequently gentlemen men of good habits and breeding than those of any other nationality, but the passenger pas-senger is pretty sure to find things roil his stomach when at the table o.her than tho motion of the ship. The table manners of the average sailing ship cabin are on a level with those to be seen the cheapest New York restaurants. res-taurants. The Captain and the mates will almost invariably try to make life pleasant and agreeable for the passengers; passen-gers; they find life at sea monotonous and lonesome and are glad to have another kind of man along. Thev are not unlikely to be oppressive in their kindness to interfere with the passenger passen-ger when he wants to be alone. Should the passenger take a dislike to his companions com-panions because of their characteristics his life will be a burden, for there is no escaping them while the voyage lasts. Books on out door sports advise a camper bound to the woods to be very careful not to take an uncongenial companion along, but on board a sailing sail-ing ship the unfortunate landsman is not unlikely to have three companions who are not only uncongenial but positively posi-tively offensive in their kindness. Another source of discomfort is found in the fact that most sailors are pessimists. pessi-mists. The wind is going to blow con- |