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 preferred on ship board are potatoes, oatmeal, wheat, flour, fine or shorts, bacon, eggs, butter, &c, in good preservation. The inferior kind of Navy Bread served out on board is considered as hard fare, especially to those not accustomed to it; an excellent kind can be procured at an advanced price. It must be added also, that in a general manner, the pork furnished is not of a good quality. A supply of biscuit is in some degree requisite; since the accommodations necessary for kneading and baking bread are indifferent, or rather not furnished, unless by the ingenuity of the emigrant, who must use, for instance, the lid of one of his travelling chests for a kneading-board. The same must serve for his table, sitting bench, and other purposes, in what is ostentatiously called second cabin, as well as in the steerage. Knives, spoons, cups, plates, cooking utensils, must be furnished by the emigrants, unless he take passage in the First Cabin, where he has comfortable berths, and all other requisites are procured by the owners of the vessel. Bedding is also required, as the berths are unprovided with mattresses, or covering, and usually of such dimensions as will only allow two persons to each, but in some instances three are inconveniently crowded together. Washing buckets can be procured on board; soap must be furnished by the emigrant.

A very injudicious proceeding on the part of those intending to emigrate is the taking out too much clothing, effects, &c., with a cumbersome equipage of trunks, boxes and packages. A mistaken notion often prevails, that clothing and many other articles are unreasonably dear