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STRAY LETTERS ON EMIGRATION- 113
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_ It Is Now Four Months Since We Publish...
boxes to make had more to be room disposed , leaving of four as best in we a cabin could . . In Plain this space narrow , ourselves deal tables h was and and forms fixed along in front of the cabinsand just e enoug
_ihe left cooking to walk were round was done them for , leaving us , but no after room the , for shi crinolines p was , got . For in spac the good firs order t few cooked days and
cleanedwe were divided into messes of six or twelve , and each mess for ar itself atus , . consisted At first much of some difficulty l was foun and d in ovens doing in so which . The had cooking to be arge coppers
app , baked a man or cook boiled , assisted all the b passengers y a lad , and had for to eat several . They days were we experienced presided over to much the by
galley annoyance they from frequentl their y surl refused y conduct to cook . When it , or anything if they did was it , taken they tried to make the passengers believe that they were under a great obli to gation to them
for for to cook some doing for time it , . and , The not getting knowing people out grumbled when of patience to prepare and , and scolded knowing their very provisions that much the . cooks I no had purpose and several the took to
make galley a were stir about on purpose it . I scolded for the tlie passengers cooksand ' comfort talked , I about the upon ri myself hts of the peop cooked le , and Soon demanded after some some rules regulations about how for , baking and when and the boiling things g were meat to and be
pudding up about . on the different ship , arid days after for the tliat various things went classes on of smoothl passengers y . Before were posted these
rules were given , the only official intelligence we had received was on one occasion when , about nine o ' clock in the morning , the cook ' s boy there sauntered
left throug Chann " duff _Graveseiicl " el h read the We y p , lace as had on the , Sunday sing a great peop ing , le out deal and did , had " of not I rain wants a know very and yer it long it was duff was and any . " much roug use Of h colder course to passage prep than are out it on . was of land We the no .
Some of . the people suffered much from , sea-sickness . It is really a most We distressing sea air fasted kept for feeling us a alive week , unlike . , but Our anything contrived abstinence else to . made keep Our about us party feel on very was deck not weak , and so for bad the some beautiful as many time , .
sions and anything when purchased at first . we We . began At had this etern to no get stage onions al gratitude hungry of , and the again a b comp gentleman we iving laint could me onions who a not possessed iece relish and of lemons it the one I shi cannot very are p ' s provi worth small tell
-! you found one one day how telling called good it my me seemed not to to the . let store After it be and we gave had y lest g me been the a others at little sea p stale a mi fortni ht loaf seize g . ht which the it . steward he I bore had
, me seen , g . it mould off in y could loaf triump not given h eat to us our the . party The biscuits inside , smiling of then it at was the When good idea , of and we our had we being relished quit * g e lad got it to heartil over have the y a ,
as we sea . illness raisins we preserved became ravenous beefand , and lime enjoyed -juice were the ship ' s provisions goodthe . salt The meat sea sugar and ,
, , very ; provisions other things to tolerable all the peop . It le , took and it the was whole the busiest of Monday day in to serve the week out . a week When ' s discovered that had
. the nothing provisions to put were them served in . Fortunatel out the first and y we to time ok had the , we broug store all ht for a roll twelve of coarse of we cloth ,
and I made a number of large bags , s us . Very few "were of stolen the peop to supp le were ly them prop . erl We y provided were the with only utensils people , in and our many side articles of of ours the
ship who liad brought scales and weights , dustpan , brush , and mop—In voyage hourl . y use Scrubbing on board brushes ship— and and house we had -flannel to lend should them lend to be the them broug rest to ht during the in abun the
who dance forget , as the them few , and who peop remember le are not such careful things to hav return e to them . It is necessary many to keep almost everything locked up if you can , and to look all sharp the ly worst after
" thing what s you , but lend they . are I am not afraid insurmountable you will , think and I must am telling give a true descri ption .
Stray Letters On Emigration- 113
STRAY LETTERS ON EMIGRATION- 113
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1862, page 113, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041862/page/41/
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