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It was certainly our next move, and after the _Ucayga_ left the wharf, I went into my stateroom, abaft the wheel-house, to make some figures relating to my plan. My apartment was a little parlor, and though I had scarcely been into it before, I was very much pleased with it. Besides a berth, in which a nice bed was made up, the stateroom was provided with a desk, lockers for books and papers, a couple of armchairs, a table, and other suitable furniture.
This was not the traditional "captain's office" to which passengers are invited to step up by the boy with the bell. The office was abaft the port paddle-box on the main deck; and the _Ucayga_, in anticipation of doing a large business, was provided with a clerk, so that I had nothing to do but attend to the navigation of the boat.