morning shower. Breakfast follows at eight o'clock. It is hard to get to breakfast on time because the clocks are always turning back. Consequently the company has arranged for a man to blow a most devastating racket on a cornet, which he does regularly with unbroken discord half an hour before the meal commences. It is such a discouraging sound that no one who has any feelings could possibly go on sleeping. Breakfast consists of anything you want to make it; it is possible to make it a good deal, but it is not a wise plan because the weather is consistly hot with the exception of the first day of the voyage. After breakfast there is a long lull. The English- men and Australians who are on board go in very strongly for the old game of profound contemplation. After lunch there is an hour or so of coffee drinking. Thus the after- noon is divided between profoundly contemplating the coffee and profoundly contemplating the ocean. Again about five a great many commence to profoundly contem- plate the hour for dinner; which event, as though accel- erated by the power of their concentration, jerks madly out of the clock at half past six. All hands change into their dinner clothes more because, I suppose, the morning clothes could not stand all the evening's profound contemplation as well. This commences after the evening coffee is over and continues unharassed until it is time to go to bed. If it isn't working smoothly it is taken into bar, where it is thoroughly put to rights, and stimulated into such