You can have sea water brought to your room for sponge baths, or
there is easy access to a room in the ship fitted up with all the
conveniences for bathing. The men pour water through a hole on deck
into a reservoir over head; pure sea water; the quantity making you
remember the saying of Horace, ‘Dulce est detrahere acervo’,--It is
pleasant to draw from a heap. In the Gulf Stream the water would suit
those who must dip their razors into warm water. All who wish for cold
baths will have them as they get further North. You have a sense of
affluence in drawing on the Atlantic for your morning bath.