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Then came four bunks for the quartermasters and last the electric motors for running under the surface. The motors were run from storage batteries and were half the power of the Diesel engines. The quarters of the crew were along the sides of the forward corridor.
"This must have been the summer cook house." "We'll use it for our jail to lock up the bad ones in," jested Dick. "There are no bunks here for sleeping." "What do you say if we get some of those logs and start a fire in the big cabin?" pleaded Dan. "I'm getting chilled." The idea prevailed. But the youngsters found snow between the logs, which were tightly frozen in place.
All the bunks were made tidy, and the stools put in their places. There was no one here. "You have only seen a fraction of our underground palaces, but I thought we would take a turn in the loft first and see what it is like. Follow me." We went out into the kitchen, and then up some steps fastened in the wall, and through the trap-door to the loft.
He seemed on the point of saying something; then he turned and looked at Jacobs, and said nothing. "Three," repeated the Old Man. "Since eight bells!" He stooped and looked again at Jacobs. "Poor devil! poor devil!" he muttered. The Second Mate grunted some of the huskiness out of his throat, and spoke. "Where must we take him?" he asked, quietly. "The two bunks are full."
On the 12th instant I booked at Bombay for Madras by the mail train and paid Rs. 13-9. It was labelled to carry 22 passengers. These could only have seating accommodation. There were no bunks in this carriage whereon passengers could lie with any degree of safety or comfort. There were two nights to be passed in this train before reaching Madras.
We are thus enabled to view the lovely scenery lying round the place from our bunks, without the trouble of rising and going to the window. Old Colonial says that free ventilation is one of the great blessings of life. He thinks that the chinks in our walls are absolutely a provision of Nature, since, he says, we would certainly be choked with smoke if there were none.
It felt a little warmer in here and I entered and closed the door. Exploring the room with my dim light I found one side of it filled with a row of bunks in each bunk a corpse. Along the other side of the room was a table with eating utensils and back of this were shelves with food packages.
At night you will need a couple of thick blankets; at noonday it is necessary to wear a pith helmet or carry an umbrella to protect the head from the sun, and as people do their traveling in the dry season chiefly, the dust is dreadful. Everything in the car wears a soft gray coating before the train has been in motion half an hour. The bunks are too narrow for beds and too wide for seats.
By day the arch-roofed labor-camps were silent and empty, but for a lonely janitor languidly mopping a floor. Before the buildings a black gang was dipping the canvas and gas-pipe bunks one by one into a great kettle of scalding water. But there are also "married quarters" at Cunette.
Still no Captain Ambuster, nor any of his crew. Search in the unsavory kitchen revealed no cook, coiled up in a corner, suffering nightmares for the last greasy dinner he had brewed in his frying-pan. There were no deck hands bundled into their bunks. Perry rapped on the chain-box and inquired if anybody was within, and nobody answering, he had to ventriloquize a negative.
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