These can be purchased very cheaply in any seaport town.
Besides this, it is likewise advisable to take a stock of coloured linen.

The office of washerwoman is filled by a sailor, so that it may easily be imagined that the linen does not return from the wash in the best possible condition.
When the sailors are employed in shifting the sails, great care must be taken to avoid injury by the falling of any of the ropes.

But all these inconveniences are comparatively trifling; the greatest amount of annoyance begins towards the end of the voyage.

The captain's mistress is his ship.

At sea he allows her to wear an easy neglige, but in port she must appear in full dress.