They messed in the wardroom, or the gunroom on a frigate, and were waited on by servants (the servants were crewmen and boys, and not domestic servants.
Babetyela kwigumbi lewadi, okanye kwigumbi lompu kwinqanawa enesantya, kwaye babencedwa zizicaka (izicaka yayingamadoda alapha esikhephini namakhwenkwe, hayi izicaka zasekhaya).