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[Billthedrill]

...during the voyage there is on board these ships terrible misery, stench, fumes, horror, vomiting, many kinds of seasickness, fever, dysentery, headache, heat, constipation, boils, scurvy, cancer, mouth rot, and the like...

...but enough about my Navy career. (Some people complain about every little thing).

You had to really want to be here and be willing to endure that sort of hardship. Sometimes I want to strangle certain glib proggies who dismiss the lot of them as "illegal aliens". It's so far from the same thing it's scarcely worth considering, and there wasn't any welfare waiting for them at the destination. 130 years earlier the Mayflower brought a hundred or so people into New England in late November. The wonder is that anyone at all survived.