Show JF from ali the i khe THE TRAVELER behold me en on my way to an em rant ship ea ariot mon ing erly in june my road lies lles through that part of london generally known to the initiated as down by the docks 2 daiy diy dewji by the docks is bome home to a good many deop people q to too many if I 1 may judge from the of local population lalon lon ion in lre tile streets but by myrose rose insinuates that the number to whom it il t is is sweet home might ie be easil easily y counted down by the he docks is a region I 1 would choose ara sea mf point of embarkation aboard ship if I 1 were an wa emigrant it would present in my y in tot tva 01 lon ion n to me in such a sensible light it would show me so many things to N be run away ewas from down by the docks they eat the largest larget beyters ey Y ster s ard scatter the roughest byster oyster known own io to the descendants 0 of ri saint george and t the be Drag dragon down by the docks they con ensi pame e the he slim bilm slimiest bil sli iest lest of shellfish sheil shell gish fiah which seem to I 1 1 hem hen haya bara been scraped off the copper bottoms bottems ot of down by the docks the ve vegetables 0 eatables at green grocers doors acquire a saline and a s acay cil cit i look aa as if they haq bad been crossed with mih mib and seaweed sea weed down by the docks they voird board seamen at the eating rating houses the public slop shops the coffee cuffee shops tk dhe the tally shops all kinds of shops mention ab a board themas them as it were in the piratical senses sense making them blaey bleed terribly ani and nd giving no quarter qua iter down hy by th iDocks the seamen roam roan in mid street and midday mid q day their pock ets inside out and their thein jimada no better down by the docks docka th I 1 daughters oc of wave wava ruling Bl Bit annik lannia a aiso also so noff to ye Y e klad kiad clad in silken attire with uncovered tresses streaming inthe breeze bandanna kerchiefs floating from froia their shoulders and ver vel jn noline loline not wap waiting ting down by the docks docka you yon may ay hear the incomparable joe jackson standard of tn england gland giand with a hornpipe pl e any night or any day may see at the waxwork for a penny and i 0 waiting walting him as nied aled the policeman at acton and anti suffered tor ron by the docks you may buy le i 3 sa veloys and sausage preparations various varno vario ps if you a are e not particular I 1 ar what they arn ara I 1 made of beside besides a seasoning down by t 1 e childr children elot elof of israel creep into any sio glo bloomy 0 my cribs and entries they can hire and hang stops slops there pewter watches seul wester nate hate mater yater waterproof proof averala ove ova rals rala fircht firt ht rate arti citta P down by the docks uch inch eleaf cleaf deahfy gre exhibiting on a frame a complete nautical suit without the refinement of a staken waxen visage in the hat present the ary w wearer weaner ea renas aa drooping at the yardarm yard arm am with ula teis sva sta seafaring faring and dg troubles down by the docks the placards in the shops aposto apostrophise apostrophize ephise the lm ulm ia raili arny ariy beforehand as look here jackl jack genes geres H i it your jour sort my badill laid try our seago beago beako rin rig mixed at tw tivo 0 and linew nine the ight jt for the british tail tari ship thoyl 2 splice salice the main brace broth ert trl come che I 1 in up weve wove the best liquors here nind find something new in our wonderful berl bier down by the docks the pawnbroker lends money mosey OB on union jack sack pocket I 1 on watches with little ships chips pitching fore and aft on the dial on tele acobes nautical instruments in cases and suc ucha acta ail like le down by the lh docks the apothecary car sets gets up in business on the wretched wretch edest eit acate cal cai chiefly on li t and plaster for the trapping strapping of wounds and with no mo bright attles and with no little drawers down vai val b by the che docks the shabby undertakers sho ehon wiil korv yon you on to next for nothing noth ine lne after the malay or r chinaman has stabbed you for nothing at all BO so you can hardly hope to ma make he a cheaper etlou edif down by the docks anybody drunk will quarrel with anybody drunk or r boler colier and 4 11 twy body else will have a hand in it and on the ta abor est cst noice nolice you may in a of red shirts shirt wild of hair halt bare tattooed arms aras daughters matle matie mud laundering maundering maun dering and down wythe bythe Docks scraping fiddles go in the public housea housew all day long iong ion lon and cirill above their din andall andali and athe the diri dirl rles ries the scratching cne ching ehing ct ef innumerable parrots bro brought tight from fron foreign party parts who appear to be very tery auch buch much astonished by what they find on hebe beat adire amative shores of ours possibly the 1116 parrots int dont know possibly they do that down by the tte docks is the load to the pacific ocean with its lovely islands where the tb savage girs alit lilt plait cowers flowers arid and the savage boys carve cocoa nut all sla ebell eils ells and the grim blind idols idol laege in their shady groves to exactly the same an purpose aw air the priests and chiefs and possibly sibly the parrots dont know possibly they do oo 00 that the noble savage is a wearisome im pastor wherever wh trever be he is and has five hundred housand volumes of indifferent rhyme and no reason to answer for shadwell church pleasant whispers of mete there being a fresher air down the river hirer than powe DOV by the docks go go pursuing one another play playfully feily fally in and ou out ont of the openings in its giganic in the bast babi just juit bey bay brand wad gad lad the beach looms my cay L lp br her ham ram the amazon her ner figurehead figure head is not disfigured asthore as those be beauteous duteous founder founders sot of the race of strong minded women are fabled to have bare been for the convenience of drawing t the bow but I 1 sympathize with the carver A flattering carter carver who mho made male it bis his caye cara to carve kuts lusts as they orgle to be not as they were my emigrant broadside broads broadb de on to the wharf two great gangways made of spars R and ana 1 pania cot coment nett uett hex wen lae lat wbk vt ati acx bl tnie chait auti ana up and down these gangways gangway sp perpetual perpetually lj crowding to and aad fro and ID in and auty out like ants are the emigrants aho who ho ere are going to sail bali bailin in my emigrant ship some with cabba cabbages es bome some with loares loates of bread some som e with che cheese ese and butter agine spine with mik and beer some i i with boxes beds and bun bundies bundles dle s some with babies bables n early nearly all with chil ren kennearly nearly all with bran new tin cans for their daily allowance of water uncomfortably suggestive of a 11 hh in flavor in the drink drinks to and fro up and down aboard and ashore swarming here and there and everywhere my V emigrant miga and still as the dock gate swings upon its hinges binges cabs appear and carts appear and vans appear brin bringing ing more of my emigrants with more c cabbages abba es more loaves more cheese and butter more milk and beer more blore boxes beds and bundle bundles more tin cans and on those shipping investments accumulated compo compound uDd interest of children chil chii dren dien igo I 1 go aboard my emigrant ship Igo I 1 go first to the great cabin and find it anth usual condition ot a camin cavin at thau that pass pem temmis reys Tem pis pig landsmen landsman lands men with loose papers and anci with af pf ans ns and inkstands ink stands pervade it iff and the he general appearance pe arance ot of things is as it the tte late tate mr ama vj s funeral had bad just come home from he khe I 1 cemetery and the disconsolate I 1 mrs amazons trustees found the affairs in great disorder and were looking high and low for the will I 1 go out cut on the poop deck for air and surveying in the eri epi emigrants grants on the deck below indeed they are crowded all about me up there too find more pe b a and inkstands ink stands in action and more papers and interminable complication respecting accounts with individuals for tin cans and what not but nobody is in an I 1 il I 1 temper nobody is the worse for drink nobody swears an oath or uses a corse coarse word nobody appears depressed nobody is weeping and down upon the deck in every corner where it is p to fi ii id a few spare felt feit to kneel crouch or lie in people in every unsuitable a attitude for writing are writing letters now I 1 have seen emigrant ships before this day in june and these people are so strikingly different from all other people in like circumstances whom I 1 have ever een that I 1 wonder aloud what could a stranger suppose these emigrants to beil bep the visitant vig rant irant bright face of the weather capman ot cla cle ene tia amazon IB is at my ray shoulder and he says gays what inde 1 edl edt me the most of these amp a board aboard yesterday even evening ilip trip they came from various parts of england in small mail 11 parties that had never seen one out another before yet thy th thy y had not been a couple of bourson hours on beard when they established their own police made mage mae their own regulation Fr and set satt their own watches at all the hatchway before nine the str sir p was as orderly and as quiet as a man of war I 1 looked about me again and saw the letter writing goins going on with the most curious composure abstracted in the midst of the crowd while great casks were swinging aloft and being lowered into the hold while hot agents were hurrying up and down adjusting the interminable accidents accident while two hundred strangers were sea everywhere for two bundred hundred other strangers and were asking au questions e at 0 no about them of two hun bun hundred dred in more ore w while h il e the children played up and down all the steps and in and end ut among all the peopled legs 0 and were beheld to the general dismay toppling over all alt the dangerous places place the letter writers wrote on calmly on the starboard side of the ship a grizzled maa tan an dicta ditta dictated td a long letter t to tb b another grizzled man in an immense far car cap which letter was of BO 90 profound a quality that it became becek bary sary say for fon the amanuensis at intervals to take off hib his fur cap in both his banda hands for the yenti ventilation ti of his is brain a d stare at him who dictated as a man of many mysteries who was waa worth looking at on the larboard side aide ide a woman hd coy covered ered tred a belaying pin witti with a white cloth to make a neat desk of it and wab was aa sitting 0 on n a little bex box writing with th the deliberation of a bookkeeper book keeper awn upon iier tier on the parks of the deck at this ibis womans comans feet fitt with her head elving in under a beam of tue the th bulwarks bulwa on abat bide side as an eligible place ot for her sheet of paper a neat and pretty gul ghi wrote for a chod hour she fainted at last only ming lising to the surface occasionally for a cipot dip of ink alongside the boat close to me pie on the poop deck another girl a fresh dresh well grown country girl was writing a letter on the bare deck later in the day when this seit belt bame same boat was filled wi h a choir wo wiio sang glees and catches for tor a ic lag ing ag time oe oze of the singers bid siD gers gert a girl gerl sang bang ler ker part pait all the while ard ad wrote a letter ietter in the bottom of the boat while doing sv so A stranger would be puzzled to guess the right fight name for people mr 2 says the captain indeed be he would if you known could 3 you you ou ever have su supposed opposed 2 how could 11 II 1 I should have said sala they were in at de ree lee iee twe the dicy dick pick ot 0 england so should dt teays says bays s the captala cap talal talai how many are tt they it 1 eight bu dred in round numbers I 1 went between decka detka where the families with children swarmed in the dark where unavoidable had bad been caused by the last arrivals and where the confusion was increased by the little preparations for dinner that were going on in each group A few women here and there had got lost and were laughing at it and asking thein their way to their own people or out on deck again A few of afi the tb poor children were crying but otherwise the universal cheerfulness wab was amazing we shall shake down by tomorrow to morrow we shall come all right in a day or EO fo 1 we shall have more light at sea 2 such phrases I 1 heard beard everywhere as I 1 groped my way ainone airone chests and barrels and beams and cargo and ring bolts and emigrants down dowa to the lower deck and thence up to tile cie light of day again and to my former station i surely an extraordinary people in their heir ol 01 beet beci at all ac ybes letter writers were still writing calmly a and nd many more letter ietter writers bad b broken out ODE in my absence A boy with a bag of books in his hand band and a blete slate under his arat emerged from below concentrated himself in my neighborhood espying a convenient skylight for his big purpose seand adt anT went to work at a sum bum as if be he were stone deaf A father and mother and several young children on the main deck bp beaw ow me had bad formed a fam tam family 11 c circle ir cie cle close cloae to fo the foot of ahe abe cro crowded ded del beatles re atles 2 garl gari gangway gway where the children made a nest nestler tor for themselves in a coil of rope and the father and mother 11 bhe she be suckling the youngest 1 discussed family affairs as peaceably as if they wre in perfect retirement I 1 think the most noticeable characteristic act in the fhe eight bu hu dred as 4 mass was their exemption from hurry burry eight hundred what geese villain P eight HUNDRED humbred MORMONS 1 I cial traveler for the firm of human interest brothers brother had bad come aboard this emigrant ship to see what eight hundred latter day saints were like and I 1 found them to the rout and overthrow of all my expectations ilke like ilk lik wha I 1 now describe with scrupulous ex exactness acan ess the agent who had bad been active in getting them together and in making the contract with my coy friend the owners of ta the ae thip ship lo 10 take as ter tar aa as on an ihn ibn heln beir way to the great salt lake was pointed out to me A compactly made handsome man nan in black rather raber short mth with rich bro brow a hair and beard and clear bright eyes from his speech I 1 should pet him down as american Pro prosby aby ably a man inan who hid h id knocked a bolit about tle tl world worlds pretty mu b A man with a frank trank open manner and unshrinking look a man wan manof of great quickness I 1 believe he h was wholly ignorant of my I 1 individuality vi and consequently of my imm easl importance thebe ire a very mae fine st set of people 5 ou have brought together here mormon agent gent yesa yeb yes air they are a nry wry fi 11 e set of people looking about indeed I 1 think it would be difficult to find eight hundred people to together ether anywhere else and hind find so much beauty and so much strength aad capacity for work among them mormon not looking agut but looking steadily at I 1 think so e we besent sent out about a thousand mere mor yd idoy oy from liverpool you are not going with mith I 1 these emigrants esget nop noy no sir air I 1 remain commercial ln but yow yew have bota beta beebie hi he file mormon territory moma yet I 1 ift left utah about three years ago apo n m erceal it is surprising to me that these pe people ople opie are al all ail 1 so cheery and make me 10 little of the abe immense distance bet bette re them theno I 1 normon Sg ent tnt 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