The embarkation--First taste of salt water--Sea-sickness--Intestine dissensions--The passengers--Alsatians--The Oldenburghers and their wooden shoes--A calm--Fate of the wooden shoes--A child overboard--Capture of a shark--A storm--Effects of the storm--Death of a passenger--The storm abates--Complaints against the committee--The remonstrance--The committee's vindication--Indolence of the Oldenburghers--A stratagem--Approach to the American coast--"Ashore! Ashore!"--Negro robbers--Termination of the voyage p. 1-43 The "Switzer's home"--Wonders of New York--"Five hundred journeymen wanted!"--A civil countryman--The future settlement--An adventure on the Quay--"The Switzer's home"--A night's …
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