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Excerpt from Land-Travel and Sea-Faring
The quarters to be occupied by the steerage passengers, who numbered about twenty, were in the ''tween-decks abaft the mainmast, and when I saw that steerage might be adequately para phrased only by Black Hole, I was sorry that I had saved a portion of my money by adopting the cheapest method of crossing half the world. I had never suspected that I was to lie cheek by jowl, four in a bunk, with unclean Irish emigrants of um savoury aspect and odour, nor that the ?ourishing list of provisions named on the Passage Ticket meant uneatable food and semi-starvation for one hundred and two days Of an unlucky, remarkable, and extremely slow voyage.
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The quarters to be occupied by the steerage passengers, who numbered about twenty, were in the ''tween-decks abaft the mainmast, and when I saw that steerage might be adequately para phrased only by Black Hole, I was sorry that I had saved a portion of my money by adopting the cheapest method of crossing half the world. I had never suspected that I was to lie cheek by jowl, four in a bunk, with unclean Irish emigrants of um savoury aspect and odour, nor that the ?ourishing list of provisions named on the Passage Ticket meant uneatable food and semi-starvation for one hundred and two days Of an unlucky, remarkable, and extremely slow voyage.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
Contributors
Author
Morley Roberts
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780484167673
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
Page Count - 270
Paperback
Contributors
Author
Morley Roberts
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781331608059
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
Page Count - 272
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