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the colonial clippers

by basil lubbock

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This book is one of the print collection volumes of the Cornell University Library, and was first published and appeared in 1914. Owing to scan of the texts and Kirtas Technologies, which helped to convert the text to JPG 2000 format, one can find various marginal notes from the original edition on the pages of this volume. Written specially for the officers and seamen of Mercantile Marine the book contains materials and illustrations, rare old lithographs and sailing records which keep with care the memory of an important historical period.

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...meridian observation with any degree of accuracy, and either trusted to dead reckoning or a blackboard held up by a passing ship for their longitude; whilst they were worked by the typically slow-footed, ever-grousing Merchant Jack of the past two centuries. Report on Steerage Conditions in 1844. Nearly everyone has read of the horror of the convict ships, but the following report of steerage conditions in 1844 plainly shows that in many respects the emigrant's lot was every bit as hard and revolting: *' It was scarcely possible to induce the passengers to sweep the decks after their meals or to be decent in respect to the common wants of nature; in many cases, in bad weather, they would not go on deck, their health suffered so much that their strength was gone, and they had not the power to help them- selves . Hence the between decks were like a loathsome 4 THE COLONIAL CLIPPERS dungeon. When hatchways were opened, under which the people were stowed, the steam rose and the stench was...