{"id":"01KG8AKZ8N3SQ33WA4S37HHMBF","cid":"bafkreiefegnkd2d3ozsq7segh77onxias6ta6yt3rp2ujqff53qu6ioj3m","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":11325,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:14.843Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG89J1GP71YDJ60P8SRH97MF","start_line":11267,"text":"CHAPTER LVIII.\r\nTHOUGH THE HIGHLANDER PUTS INTO NO HARBOR AS YET; SHE HERE AND THERE\r\nLEAVES MANY OF HER PASSENGERS BEHIND\r\n\r\n\r\nAlthough fast-sailing ships, blest with prosperous breezes, have\r\nfrequently made the run across the Atlantic in eighteen days; yet, it\r\nis not uncommon for other vessels to be forty, or fifty, and even\r\nsixty, seventy, eighty, and ninety days, in making the same passage.\r\nThough in the latter cases, some signal calamity or incapacity must\r\noccasion so great a detention. It is also true, that generally the\r\npassage out from America is shorter than the return; which is to be\r\nascribed to the prevalence of westerly winds.\r\n\r\nWe had been outside of Cape Clear upward of twenty days, still harassed\r\nby head-winds, though with pleasant weather upon the whole, when we\r\nwere visited by a succession of rain storms, which lasted the greater\r\npart of a week.\r\n\r\nDuring the interval, the emigrants were obliged to remain below; but\r\nthis was nothing strange to some of them; who, not recovering, while at\r\nsea, from their first attack of seasickness, seldom or never made their\r\nappearance on deck, during the entire passage.\r\n\r\nDuring the week, now in question, fire was only once made in the public\r\ngalley. This occasioned a good deal of domestic work to be done in the\r\nsteerage, which otherwise would have been done in the open air. When\r\nthe lulls of the rain-storms would intervene, some unusually cleanly\r\nemigrant would climb to the deck, with a bucket of slops, to toss into\r\nthe sea. No experience seemed sufficient to instruct some of these\r\nignorant people in the simplest, and most elemental principles of\r\nocean-life. Spite of all lectures on the subject, several would\r\ncontinue to shun the leeward side of the vessel, with their slops. One\r\nmorning, when it was blowing very fresh, a simple fellow pitched over a\r\ngallon or two of something to windward. Instantly it flew back in his\r\nface; and also, in the face of the chief mate, who happened to be\r\nstanding by at the time. The offender was collared, and shaken on the\r\nspot; and ironically commanded, never, for the future, to throw any\r\nthing to windward at sea, but fine ashes and scalding hot water.\r\n\r\nDuring the frequent _hard blows_ we experienced, the hatchways on the\r\nsteerage were, at intervals, hermetically closed; sealing down in their\r\nnoisome den, those scores of human beings. It was something to be\r\nmarveled at, that the shocking fate, which, but a short time ago,\r\novertook the poor passengers in a Liverpool steamer in the Channel,\r\nduring similar stormy weather, and under similar treatment, did not\r\novertake some of the emigrants of the Highlander.\r\n\r\nNevertheless, it was, beyond question, this noisome confinement in so\r\nclose, unventilated, and crowded a den: joined to the deprivation of\r\nsufficient food, from which many were suffering; which, helped by their\r\npersonal uncleanliness, brought on a malignant fever.\r\n\r\nThe first report was, that two persons were affected. No sooner was it\r\nknown, than the mate promptly repaired to the medicine-chest in the\r\ncabin: and with the remedies deemed suitable, descended into the\r\nsteerage. But the medicines proved of no avail; the invalids rapidly\r\ngrew worse; and two more of the emigrants became infected.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJT5SAHKG6V354KE5GRJR","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1GP71YDJ60P8SRH97MF","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKZ9R99MAQ6WZ6CNQWDWR","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:21.781Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:34.626Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}