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The wife of a junior officer cooped up in a horrible canvas partition in steerage for five months wrote:
"I had enjoyed much peace there in the absence of every comfort, even of such as are now enjoyed in jail. I used to say that there were four privations in my situation - fire, water, earth and air. No fire to warm oneself on the coldest day, no water to drink but what was tainted, no earth to set the foot on, and scarcely any air to breathe. Yet, with all these miserable circumstances, we spe
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[Admiral Sir Erasmus Gower] 'No other contemporary officer approached his accumulated experience...'
From Champion of the Quarterdeck: Admiral Sir Erasmus Gower 1742-1814.
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