Water Qts. 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
Bread lb. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Beef " 1-1/2 1-1/2 1-1/2 1-1/2
Pork " 1-1/4 1-1/4 1-1/4
Preserved Meats "
Preserved Potatoes oz. 
Preserved Vegetables. lb. 
Flour " 1/2 1/2 1/2
Peas Pint 1/3 1/3 1/3
Calavances "
Rice lb. 1/2
Oatmeal "
Barley "
Salted Fish "
Condensed Milk oz. 
Tea " 1/8 1/8 1/8 1/8 1/8 1/8 1/8
Coffee Beans (Roasted) " 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2
Cocoa "
Sugar " 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Dried Fruit (Raisins,
  Currants, &c.) "
Butter lb. 
Marmalade or Jam "
Molasses Pint
Mustard oz. 
Pepper "
Vinegar or Pickles Pint
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SUBSTITUTES AND EQUIVALENTS. 
Equivalent Substitutes at the Master’s option.  No spirits allowed.

FOOTNOTES: 

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CHAPTER VIII

LIFE AMONG THE PACKET RATS

It is a noteworthy fact that many of the featherbrained, harum-scarum captains endeavoured to man their vessels with men who had been trained in north-country colliers.  These men were considered not only the best, but the most subordinate in the world.  Perhaps this was correct, but I think the west countrymen could claim a good place in point of seamanship, if not of subordination.  I remember hearing the captain of an Australian passenger vessel making this complimentary statement of north-country men to my father, when I was a very small boy, and I learnt by experience many years afterwards that it was true.  Life aboard some of the packet ships was a chronic convulsion of devilry.  The majority of the men constituting the crew were termed “packet rats,” and were the scrapings of British and foreign scoundrelism.  No wonder the captains were anxious to have a proportion of fine, able-bodied north-country sailors, as a steadying influence on the devil-may-care portion of the crew.  The signing on of a packet ship was quite an historic occasion.  All the “gimlet-eyed” rascals in town were on the alert to bleed the sailor as soon as he had got his advance.  It was usual for the sailors to sign articles binding themselves to be aboard at 5.30 or 6 a.m. on a fixed date, and in order that