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April, 1924 MARINE REVIEW 151 Forecastle scene on American freighter Eastern Planet. When the camera was ready, each sailor got his own book from his locker and insisted on being shown reading Petty officers’ mess in which the library and menagerie run a close race a iloary New library just brought aboard Eastern Planet, American freighter in Australian service. The sailors suggested the life buoy as indicating the “life saving” value of the library on the long trip to the south Pacific Cook on the East Wind is a champion reader but of course he does not ordi- narily used the galley as a study Seamen’s mess room on Eastern Planet with a cup of coffee served between watches. When the picture was taken, each man produced his book from a hiding place in the mess room