The lower decks had been filled with bunks.

Alas! the very thought of those things of torture makes me shudder even now.

They were arranged in rows, lengthwise the ship, of course, with aisles only two feet wide between each row.

The dimensions of a man's bunk was 6 feet long, 2 feet wide and 2 feet high, and they were arranged in tiers of four, with a four inch board on either side to keep one from rolling out.

The Government had furnished no bedding at all.