FOOTNOTES:
[19] We believe that this was not always properly done. We read of the wounded in one ship being operated upon by a saw from the carpenter’s stock. A stiff upper lip was very necessary aboard a ship of that kind.
[20] Money was advanced to the purser for the purchase of wine. He generally bought weak, or adulterated wine, at a low price, and pocketed the money saved.
[21] Half of all the slush went to the cook. The other half went to the ship, for the greasing of the bottom and running rigging.