The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-07-18

emigrant ships, and George Curtis wac
used to clear with. I em Informed thas
the Rev. B. L. Porter assured the Gus.
toT1house authorities that Curtis under
stood the practice Of medicine, having
studded it in his youth. He knows
about as much of medicine as street
car mule. During the whole voyage he
was prowling around tween decks with
O email book called "the mariners nedi.
cal suide' in one hand, and oil sorts of
compounds extracted from the medicine
chest in the other. Even tho book was
given him by the captain. feel very
confident that he WAS nnacqrainted with
the symptoms of the simplest diseases,
and my idea Is that he went almost en-.
tirey by gucss-work. When he had
formed some opinion as to what The dis.
order was, he would refer TO the book,
and treat 1t thereby. He used continu-
ally TO be consulting the captain as to
what he should do. was called in 10
one or two Of these consultations, but
my medical knowledge being acquired
principally from fence somewhere, and
consisting Of vague idea that TUFTS
liver pills were good for something or
another, / was subsequently, and wisely,
ignored. This thing seems. 70 me to
haze been either deliberate crime, and
3 very grave olo, or equally criminal
careessness on the part of the maEsgers
of this exodus. 1t is horrible to think of
o b!ladering ignoramus like this man
| having charge of the health of some
three hundred people, large majority
OF whom were women and children. /.
| is only Heaven'o mercy that there are
not even more deaths to record. Capt.
l +. ryhs hr,no
more knowledge of the simpler diseases
than Curtis, Of course could not be ex.
pected to be able to cope with anything
Of complicated nature. So there we
all we're, entirely at the mercy OF any
pestilence that might arise. T am Ger.
tain that the more intelligent of the
passengers agreed with me in my esti.
mate of this doctors" akill. L don't
think he was eyer allowed TO experiment
On any one in the cabin, and know that
his practice land it literally was prac-
tice) was laughing stock on the quar-
ter deck, where he was generally known
as "calomei ard jalap,h that being his
fayorite prescription. He administered
it to Johnaon's child, ~hich died in con-
vulsions. It's death was attributed to
worms, although he was in doubt as to
whether IL was that or cerebro spinal
Easa:ssse.;s. Cf d. Curtis, too, / aiiiaiii
have more to say hereafter.
The log showed on Sunday at noon
that we had made 14A miles that dpv.
making total of ,055, and leaving us
still ahead of the necessary average. In
| addition to the funeral services already
mentioned, regular services were held
twice on Sunday, being largely ATTENDED.
On Monday, 2Sth, the log scored 125
miles, q total of l,18O. Still slightly
ahead of the average. On this day
| THE FIRST BIRTH
took place, being that of boy, (repcrt-
ed to be fine one,) to the wife Of Ned
CLARK, steerage passenger. Mother and
child both fourished from the frat. We
had by this time been driven into about
| 80 north latitude, being about tho. .,lati-
4 tude of Cape May, and two degrees fur.
ther north than the captain had intend
ed going, he having proposed to run only
as for up as Baltimore, latitude 81. As
soon as the head wind abated the vessei's
course wee changed, and she went into
her long southeast stretch.
On Tuesday, 29th, we made two hun
dred and fourteen miles, gaining trife
south, the winG nsvirg shifted somewhat,
and making fetal for the nine days of
one thousand three hundred and ninety.
four miles. We were still ahead of the
required average, but lost considerably
by being becaimed during Tuesday night,
only making seVenty-two miles to Wed
nesday at IL O'Clock. The sea during
nearly oil of Wednesday lay like sheet
! of flen!h!e glaze, oniy disturbed by q
heavy but quiet swell, which rolled
abeam, producing, as heavy swells gene
oHr
ing the vessel rocking violently. Dn-
ring the evening, however, o brisk breeze
came up, just forward of thequaFter, and
the AEor went bowlong along before it.
running on her port side, keeping every
body and everything drifting TO feeward,
making the holding of ones self in o
bunk process requiring considerable
science, and adding 10 the, difficulty Of
the problem how to stow six feet Of
anatomy comfortably in five feet eight
inches of bunk, which / had heeu en-
deavuring to solve from the beginning.
The wind continued to freshen until it
became light gale, aud the vessel tossed
on che waves at great rate. Wednes-
day was the regular "bed-airing" tiay,
but the spray and wind obliged the hasty
taking in OF all such furniture. The
emisrants had great fun at first coaxing
their pnwary fellows, to stand near the
windward gangway, and get we'll "soused"
by the water wRichTne9 END sten came
dashing over the rails. Mach diversion
was also caused by the loss of. several
hats, which took 70 themselves wings end
few away, that being the only thing
about them suggesting riches even in the
most remote. MANNER. (By the way, /
believe nearly every man aboard the
AZoE lest head gear at some stage Of the
voyage, and O collector of curiosities in
the way of ancient and dilapidated tiles
might have reaped rich harvest had he
been in our wake.) Towards night, how
ever When eYesgel cafeshkd so much
as to dip up water throngh d her lee sctfs5.
p,erg, and tho wind still ,freshered, many
of the passengers became frat anxiotis,
then tlhiid :, and fiu4llr thnrnnehl.s E-s...s
ened. The doofs de the hatch houses
were closed and everybody cent bslow.
A driving rain had set in, and neither in
the lowering sky- above nor, in the rush
iEg water beneath was any comfort. Il,
I took S, walk through the steerage ON
Wednesday night and found everybody
nervous and disposed to be sick. The
nervousness and sickness both Increased,
| and on Thuraday morniDg they had be-
come almost universal. We ,Scored 2l8
-.!!es &C TTia:sssiss+ TTia:s.ssi'ssJ+ az nun with what
! sail we carried, bringing the total run to
1873 miles. Daylight brought some
comfort, bat the wind still blew freshly,
| with occasional light squalls, which
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