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February/March 2001 | Volume 52, Issue 1
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February/March 2001 | Volume 52, Issue 1
In regard to “What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor?” in the September 2000 “Time Machine,” many seamen of both American and British navies of the lateeighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries would have been quite surprised if their daily ration of “grog” was “diluted whiskey” rather than the rum and water that was actually provided.