454 The range boiler is provided with a cover but I fear that that is not always in place to keep out the dust of the fore- castle, for the water sometimes is too dirty for human drinking. Still, some of the dirt may come from the ice itself, which is piled on the fore hatch as it is brought from the berg and there certainly is some soot depos- it ed or from the smoke of the galley fire. We should be all right for the cabin supply, if only we had a 10 or 20 gallon tank with a faucet at the bottom. Such a tank and a Primus rigged up in the dining room stove would keep us well supplied with good water, but we have no tank! We are lucky to have the gasoline cans, for there seems to be nothing else in which to melt ice aft.