ABOUT ALL KINDS OF SHIPS
"Depth?"
"Sixty-five."
"Beam?"
"Fifty or sixty."
"Built of—"
"Wood."
"What kind?"
"Shittim and gopher."
"Interior and exterior decorations?"
"Pitched within and without."
"Passengers?"
"Eight."
"Sex?"
"Half male, the others female."
"Ages?"
"From a hundred years up."
"Up to where?"
"Six hundred."
"Ah—going to Chicago; good idea, too. Surgeon's name?"
"We have no surgeon."
"Must provide a surgeon. Also an undertaker—particularly the undertaker. These people must not be left without the necessities of life at their age. Crew?"
"The same eight."
"The same eight?"
"The same eight."
"And half of them women?"
"Yes, sir."
"Have they ever served as seamen?"
"No, sir."
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