USS Constellation 8

These are some of the hammocks that the crew slept in, and here is where you can really see one of the trials and tribulations of being a Nintendo DSi photographer. If it's dark, you need to hold your hands very still if you don't want your picture to come out blurry. And there's nowhere to mount it on a tripod, so you just need to kinda suck it up and try to keep your hands steady. For pictures like this, the way the DSi handles darkness is absolutely a pain, but it's worth it for some of the other pictures that I’ve gotten elsewhere. The darkness is only a hindrance if you don’t know how to use it. I mentioned the Obra Dinn on an earlier photo, but this is where it set in that I was really on a period sailing ship. I overheard one of the tour guides mentioning that since these “beds” are hung from the ceiling, they were often seen as more desirable than even the captain's bed, because their suspended nature made them immune to the rolling of the ship. The bed in the infirmary was like a combination of the two. It was a mattress on a wooden board, which was suspended from the ceiling via ropes. I suppose it makes sense that you wouldn’t want someone who was already sick to have to deal with sea sickness as well. The tour guide also mentioned that medicine was really crude back then, because most of it was just literal poison. One of the common “medicines” that the ship's doctor could give you was just straight up arsenic.