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I have it direct from best of authority in Bowery that the doctors in the clinics of this super city can open a man up and saw off his whiskey stomach and assemble a pig's stomach in its place-- and to think of all the good stomachs the farmers plowed-under; not only in the sense of lost pork tenderloin, smothered in "sweepings" of the galley.

Conditions aboard ship are indescribly bad-- especially in a nice family periodical-- and of course the seamen are beefing. Aside from the dangers of sea, with few of the safety at sea rules observed, the seaman is harrassed on all hands by a series of dangers such as unsanitary quarters, rowing?, epidemics and diseases such as malaraia