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crew; and in order to return to Panama had to en- gage men at enormous wages. Thus, while her com- mander, engaged by the owners in New York, was receiving $250 per month, the chief engineer and the black cook had $500 each, the firemen $250 each, and the seamen $200 per man. This state of things did not last long. The next steamship of the line anchored under the guns of the United States line-of- battle ship Ohio, and her men could not desert.