Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NARRATIVE. THE VOYAGE. We embarked at New York, on board the sbip Southerner, Captain Tibbitts, bound to Santa Cruz, St. Thomas and Jamaica, on the morning of Eleventh month 19th, 180. We had about twenty-five passengers in company, most of whom were invalids, seeking a climate where they might escape the severities of a North American winter. The parting of these from their friends and relatives produced some saddening sensations. A snow having fallen the day previous to our departure, every thing presented a wintry appearance. Having a good breeze from N. W. we soon passed thQ Narrows, and before dark our noble ship was riding upon the rough waves of the Atlantic. During the first two days of the voyage we experienced a heavy sea, in consequence of which, most of the passengers suffered exceedingly from sea-sickness. On First-day the 22d, we had passed the Gulf stream, the ocean became calm, and the weather was mild and pleasant as a summer morning. At our request a meeting for Divine worship was held, which was attended by allthe passengers who had sufficiently recovered from the sea-sickness. Isolated as we were upon the ocean, the occasion seemed to demand that we should forget those sectional prejudices and feelings which form the barriers between different professors of religion, and have a tendency to separate from the love of God, and endeavor to realize the truth of the Scripture declaration, One is your master, even Christ, and all ye are brethren. We were favored to enjoy a comfortable meeting together, and a word of encouragement was given to some, whose declining health warned them that the period of their dissolution was drawing nigh. On the 23d, we encountered a heavy gale. The waves rose high, occasionally sweeping over the deck of the vess...