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crew; and  in  order  to  return  to  Panama  had  to  en- gage men at  enormous  wages. Thus, while  her  com- mander, engaged by  the  owners  in  New  York,  was receiving $250  per  month,  the  chief  engineer  and  the black cook  had  $500  each,  the  firemen  $250  each,  and the seamen  $200  per  man. This state  of  things  did not last  long. The next  steamship  of  the  line  anchored under the  guns  of  the  United  States  line-of- battle ship Ohio,  and  her  men  could  not  desert.