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 666 FBDEBAIi BEPORTEE. �for the other four days in the week, together with eight pounds of bread, half a pound of wheat flour, three-quarters of a poiind of butter, or 10 cubio inches of olive oil, and tbree- ^uarters of a pound of sugar, or one pound of molasses per week. Nine pints of water per day are also required. Tea or coffee, barley for soups, and other small stores are to be pro- vided, about which tbere is no complaint of any deficiency. When in harbor a pound and a half of fresh meat may twice a week be substituted for the salted, and soup is to be iur- nished twice a week from fresh meat when in port. �When this vessel left Hernosand, July 12th, she was fur- nished with ail the provisions required by Swedish law, amongst which were 13 barrels of salted meats. She reached New York December 15, 1879, and, as the master statesin his testimony, they then had left about a barrel and a half of beef, with a like quantity of pork, having in five months con- sumed ten barrels of salted meat, or at the rate of two barrels a month. In his answer the master states that when he sailed from New York for Alesandria three barrels of beef and three of pork were on board. The voyage from New York to Alexandria occupied 75 days. They remained in that port 54 days. The master there procured 350 pounds of fresh meat, ail of which was, without question, consumed before leaving that port. From thence to Alexandria the time was 45 days. It is not disputed that soon after leaving New York the master ordered the steward to allow the crew but three- quarters of a pound of sait beef, instead of the legal allowance of one and a half pounds per day for three days in the week. The men were thus eut short of one-half of the quantity to which they were entitled. They admit that this was enough for their dinners, but that nothing was left for breakfast ; and that when they discovered that they had thus been restricted there was "considerable grumbling," but the quantity of beef was never increased. �Allowing but three-fourths of a pound of beef or pork per day to each man on the voyage from New York to Alexandria, and back to Gibraltar, there could not have been more than 300 pounds of salted meat remaining when the vessel sailed ����