Diary 31.3.1883

Saturday 31

A deal better, we have had porridge to our breakfast they are the best of anything we have had so far, the things are so badly cooked and messed up.

Diary 30.3.1883

Friday 30

Both a little better, we have had the Doctor three times to see us and he has given us something, we have one tin of condensed milk and four eggs allowed every Thursday and Monday for Emmeline, the first thing we longed for when we were getting better of sickness was some of Mortimer’s home fed ham and eggs and some of mother’s tea, but I am very sorry to say we could not get them, we have had a week of sea sickness now, our bones are very sore with being in bed so long, we have only a flock mattress to lie on it is very hard.
We have not been undressed since we left home, but we shall have to change all on Sunday, we thought the bed might be damp so we would sleep in our clothes then we have been so sick since, we have had some dreadful weather we thought on Wednesday night we were going to be drowned, but I am very thankful to say that the Lord was with us and he bought us through this time.
I would not advise anyone to come on a sailing vessel.

Diary 29.3.1883

Thursday 29

Very sick.

Diary 28.3.1883

Wednesday 28

Very sick.

Diary 27.3.1883

Tuesday 27

Sick tried to get up but had to go back to bed. John Edwin (Emily’s husband) is worse than me, I am very thankful to say Emmeline (Emily & John Edwin’s daughter, my Great-grandmother was 1 year, 7 months old at the time) is alright but we cannot attend to her as we ought.
Mrs Nicholson and Mrs Hebdon have been very good to us also some people called Deacon from Shipley, they gave us some jam which was very nice. We’ve now got 2,000 miles on our way.

Emmeline in 1936

Diary 26.3.1883

Monday 26

Sick, in bed all day

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Diary 25.3.1883

Sunday 25

Sick, in bed all day.

Diary 24.3.1883

Saturday 24

Sick, in bed all day, nothing to eat.

From the Glasgow Herald, Issue 70, Thursday
March 22, 1883

Diary 23.3.1883

Friday morning 23rd March

Breakfast 8am, dry bread and coffee, dinner 1 to 2 soup, beef and potatoes, supper at 5 tea, nothing else to eat, we do not get any tea, it is tea and supper all in one. I never slept in such a bed before it is like a horse box, we are on top of someone else, there is all the single men at one end and the single women at the other and the married in the middle of the vessel.

Clyde Dock