The whole of the luggage was carelessly thrown to- 

 gether, and among which were the poor suffering pas- 

 sengers, many of them ladies, rolling in sickness and 

 everything that was filthy, with the risk of having their 

 brains beat out. Our getting into the boat which came 

 alongside was so far bad that we thought it miraculous 

 that only two passengers fell overboard. All our cam- 

 paigning was a joke, for the time it lasted, to these four 

 hours and a half. 



Colonel Peter Hawker (from his Diary). 



