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Saturday 16th – Dull with a few blinks
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of sunshine, wind light right aft, studding
sails set on both sides of the main top gallant
yard. weather much milder, on account of
the light wind I suppose. The ship rolling
a good deal. A good many albatrosses after
the vessel and a few of ‘Mother Careys chickens’
Difference of the time 109 minutes. Had
a Haggis for dinner.
STANDARDISED
Saturday 16th
Dull with a few blinks of sunshine, wind light right aft. Studding sails set on both sides of the main top gallant yard. Weather much milder, on account of the light wind I suppose. The ship rolling a good deal. A good many albatrosses after the vessel and a few of ‘Mother Careys chickens’. Difference of the time 109 minutes. Had a haggis for dinner.
HENRY SCHOFIELD DIARY
16th v fine
Tom Earnshaw begun to be Captain of mess. I had a row with Mr & Mrs Earnshaw about George last night[1]. Made an exchange with [Bells?] for a collar 9d & a knife 9d. A man tried to raffle a pair of buffalo horns for 2 pounds. Today we was 11 hours & 22 mins before London time, 6 knots. Dinner salt beef & rice. Washed my towel.
Notes
1.The Earnshaw family were friends of Henry Schofield. They don’t appear in the list of assisted emigrants or cabin passengers, so were paying their own way in steerage. Thomas and Elizabeth were travelling with five of their children: Thomas (18) who was in the same mess group as Henry, Mary (16) who would have been in the single women’s quarters, George (13) who would have been in the single men’s quarters, and Ann (12) and Henry (6) who would have been with their parents in the married couples’ quarters. See Thomas Earnshaw (1819-1885) profile on WikiTree, managed by Larry Smith.
![Wilson's Petrel - Mother Carey's chicken, drawn by J J Audubon, printed and coloured by J T Bowen, from The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories, v.7 (New York: 1844), plate 461. [Biodiversity Heritage Library]](http://mermaid1864.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/mother-careys-chicken-birds-of-america-Biodivlib.jpg)
Wilson’s Petrel – Mother Carey’s chicken, drawn by J J Audubon, printed and coloured by J T Bowen, from The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories, v.7 (New York: 1844), plate 461. [Biodiversity Heritage Library]
