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>And yes, it was indeed the sheer ordinariness of her account that quite appealed to me in a strange sort of way.
I wonder what the mortality rate was on those trips. Some of my ancestors made the trip from Ireland to Zild in the 1850s, while others had travelled here from Blighty in the 1840s, so reading her account makes me think I'm lucky to be alive at all.
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