09_Those_elusive_immigrants_part_three_p_29-35.pdf

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title	Those Elusive Immigrants: Part Three
creator	Jones, Orlo
subject	Island Magazine
subject	Prince Edward Island Museum
description	Below decks in the airless steerage trying to keep clean Men, women, children living together. Your bedding spread on the wooden shelf At night the smell of vomit and urine The swill of water beneath the floor beams The lanterns swinging from the posts The creaking play of hull timbers and masts Women comforting their children's terror The cholera victims carried out in the morning Drinking water going foul, flour spoiling Blisters from dampness in the sheets Children crying with the first typhoid pains Women looking at their husbands unable to do more Despairing of reaching the new world alive. —From "Emigrant Ship 1830s" by Douglas Stewart
publisher	Prince Edward Island Museum
date	1985
type	Document
format	application/pdf
identifier	vre:islemag-batch2-240
source	18
language	en_US
rights	Please note that this material is being presented for the sole purpose of research and private study. Any other use requires the permission of the copyright holder(s), and questions regarding copyright are the responsibility of the user.

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title	Those Elusive Immigrants: Part Three
creator	Jones, Orlo
subject	Island Magazine
subject	Prince Edward Island Museum
description	Below decks in the airless steerage trying to keep clean Men, women, children living together. Your bedding spread on the wooden shelf At night the smell of vomit and urine The swill of water beneath the floor beams The lanterns swinging from the posts The creaking play of hull timbers and masts Women comforting their children's terror The cholera victims carried out in the morning Drinking water going foul, flour spoiling Blisters from dampness in the sheets Children crying with the first typhoid pains Women looking at their husbands unable to do more Despairing of reaching the new world alive. —From "Emigrant Ship 1830s" by Douglas Stewart
publisher	Prince Edward Island Museum
date	1985
type	Document
format	application/pdf
identifier	vre:islemag-batch2-240
source	18
language	en_US
rights	Please note that this material is being presented for the sole purpose of research and private study. Any other use requires the permission of the copyright holder(s), and questions regarding copyright are the responsibility of the user.