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He had not realized until then that without aid of the lamps he could not see his own hand held out in front of him; his eyes had grown used to the gloom, like those of the surgeons in the sick-bays below the water line in Nelson's fleet. "But who shouted?" "Who knows? There is only one here who gives orders. We be many who obey," said Ismail. "Whose men were the last ones?"
Between decks are magazines, storerooms, engine-rooms, boiler-rooms, dynamo-rooms, mess-rooms, ice-rooms, repair-shops, staterooms, office-rooms, sick-bays, galleys, laundries, pantries but only ship-constructors can tell you offhand how many hundreds of compartments are below decks of a present-day big war-ship.
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