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The former included officers of the regular as well as the Indian army , holding lucrative appointments , for the sub-lieutenants get two hundred and eighty ; brigadiers , two thousand four hundred ; and generals , four thousand pounds a year . Society , therefore , on board the _ Mongolia _ was very pleasant . The purser feasted them sumptuously every day . They had early breakfast , then tiffin at two o'clock , dinner at half-past five , and supper at eight ; and the tables groaned beneath the variety of dishes . The ladies on board changed their toilettes twice a day , and there was music and dancing when the weather was sufficiently favourable to admit of those amusements . But the Red Sea is very capricious ; it is frequently very rough , like all long and narrow gulfs . When the wind blew broadside on , the _ Mongolia _ rolled fearfully .