Packet Surgeon’s Journals

Saturday 18th January – at day light the Pilot having come on board we began to heave up the anchor – and in a very short […]

Sunday 26th Jan.ry – all last night we lay off and on, till the dawn enabled [us] to see our way, when we steered in for […]

Notwithstanding our apprehensions, we were lucky enough to escape the visitation of another [Norther], till we reached Tampico. The wind for a day or two was […]

Manners of the Mexicans Well, with the exception of the Portuguese – who are a shade worse, the Mexicans are among the dirtiest people with whom […]

But I must be particular at least in recording the names of our messmates & shipmates, in order to preserve some memorial of them, when days, […]

Having thus made you somewhat intimate with our two cabin passengers, order now requires me to say a few words respecting the ten Miners. We brought […]

1st Richard Ham – was not a very young, yet not an old man. He was strongly marked with the small pox – of a stout […]

Sunday 9th February – no Mail to day – wind from NW – Weather alternately thick foggy & cloudy – Air very damp. Monday 10th – […]

A Norther – Can’t get on board All foreigners never sit long at table. We were aware of that custom and therefore at a decent time […]