Dr. Waterhouse doesn't believe, until he's down there, what Dappa tells him next. He hasn't seen the hold yet, and reckons it'll be like the shambolic Repository at the Royal Society – but no. The great casks and bales are stacked, and lashed in place, with admirable neatness, and there is even a Diagram tacked to the staircase bulkhead in which the location of each object is specified, and notes made as to what's stored there and when it was done. Underneath, under a subheading labelled bilge , van Hoek himself has scratched 'out-moded china – keep handy.'