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( 236 ) articles whatever in the prison, the space they occupy ought to be bulkheaded round. Particular care is requisite that no wet cloathsclothes [sic] are hung up or left about the prison.

Every convict should be supplied with a hammock, a very thin mattress, and one blanket; care must be taken that every man hangs his hammock up in his proper birth, else laziness will induce the greater number to spread it on the deck even in the wet; in dry weather the beds should be aired as often as possible, (if every day the better,) and the hammock scrubbed once a month.

If the ship touches at Teneriffe or Madeira, or if not, after she has passed those islands, the beds,