Chapter 23 WHAT BEFELL THE MAN IN THE BRIG

The "brig" is a place aboard a warship, as aboard some merchant vessels, that is set apart for prison purposes.

Here drunken or mutinous members of the crew are confined. Here, too, on board a vessel of war, any enlisted man is likely to be stowed away when under severe discipline for any reason.

It is a room fitted up like a prison cell, and