ON BOARD THE ORIENTAL.
The stewardess is a character. She is
a very light mulatto, — tall, thin, very talkative, and frank in the expression
of her face. She says that passengers get frightened at very slight rolling and
ask the officers of the boat whether there is danger, “and you can't get them
to give a straight answer to such questions — 't ain't in the nature of them.
They goes in for excitement, so they tells the ladies that it's the worst time
they ever knowed, don't know whether the boat will live through the night or
not, — and then the ladies is scared.”
Rupert Sargent Holland, Editor, Letters and Diary of Laura M. Towne: Written from the Sea Islands of
South Carolina 1862-1864, p. 3
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