“Another very quiet night and this morning we look and feel very much like boiled owls and my bones are I believe all broken. Went onto the poop today and must say it was a very grand sight although at the time I felt too queer to appreciate it. The waves came on and on […]

“Another horrible night having been tossed up and down all the time. My inside seems as if it ought to be outside. The sea is again fearfully rough and it is difficult to write or to stand. Up at short intervals all day and had a little boiled mutton for dinner at 12.15 & which […]

“Had a fearful nights rest & the sea is running very high. During the night we woke up by hearing our pails basins & boxes floating up and down our cabin at each lurch; but we fared well to what the ladies did, for on going aft to see them we found that the whole […]

“Up at 7.30 after a fearful night’s rest & feel very seedy about the head. Fine morning & doing about 5 knots an hour only in the wrong direction. Arthur amused himself by turning his box out whilst I went through my stamps. Dinner 12.30 Salt Junk Biscuits Cheese Pickles & plum pudding. Fine breeze […]

“Up at 6 to see the sun-rise, splendid morning but a nasty long swell on. Stew for breakfast which was A1. Arthur tried his hand at fishing as we saw thousands of fish around us but he did not catch a single one. Today we are all feeling much better after our late sickness & […]

“Up at 6 feeling a bit better for a very bad night & managed to eat some beef & an egg for breakfast which fortunately was not wasted. Wind NW in the morning & making a little headway but it soon changed to NE & now we are not making any progress. Watched the sun […]

“Woke up feeling rather queer. Change of air & food has given all of us diarrhoea. Been sick nearly all day; with the exception of a mutton chop all has found its way to sea. Wind dead against us all day have therefore made no way at all.” 4th day sailing from England to Australia in […]

“After a good sleep in our not so spacious bedroom (12ft x 6ft) to hold by the bye (the guv’nor, Arthur & myself) we got up at 5.45 not to feed the fishes or to catch the worms, but to see us weigh the anchor before starting which we did at 6.20. We had 2 […]

“We started from the Blackwall pier (East India Docks) at 1.30pm & after a short farewell & a pleasant little trip we arrived at Gravesend at 3.45 where we stopped for the night. Arthur & I went on shore for a couple of hours to see his father off & to take our last glass […]