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side.

No daylight can penetrate into this compartment.

12 officers sleep in the space of a room 12 feet by [[strikethrough]] 6 [[/strikethrough]] ^[[7]] feet by 10 feet -- the size of a couple of closets. Two hundred and fifty six are thusly crammed into "F compartment."

And "F compartment" is multiplied by 3 sections and again by "E" and "G" decks, and added to by odd corners. here and there. As the nights grow warmer on our approach through the Gulf Stream, it is unsufferably hot and muggish in