Let's go start the fun." On the way aft they passed the firemen sprawling on the shady side of the deck.

They stumbled to their feet at sight of Hovey, and swore volubly that the hole of the ship was too hot for a man to live in it five minutes.

Hovey passed them without a word.

He had to tend to Campbell now, and without an engineer it was useless to work men in the fireroom.
First of all he had two buckets of water carried aft and placed just below the edge of the raised deck which supported the wireless house.
There were dippers floating invitingly on the surface of the water in each bucket.

Then from the galley of the ship Kamasura and Shida, the cabin boys, brought out steaming meats and cut loaves of bread and displayed the feast near the buckets of water.