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officers having taken care to get a good stall[?] in before leaving England. Should any stranger happen along unseen, and stand within hearing distance when the Purser & 2nd & 3rd Mates are together with any of us, they would certainly think we were all mad. The 3rd has a peculiar habit of attempting to supress his mirth & at times it becomes uncontrollable and escapes as a noise resembling a person badly troubled with asthma, coughing or breathing heavily. Aboard this peculiarity has been termed a "wheeze". When rendered properly it is

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