EXCERPTS FROM THE DIARY GEORGE HAY IN 1870 on ship.
Sept. 24, 1870
Articles bought before sailing-
Rebecca a (Gave her) $ 40.00
Pipes and tobacco- 8.60
Passage on ship- 240.00
Sundries- 5.00
Silk hat- 1.62
Soft hat- 3.00
Carriage- 2.75
Sept. 25,
Clear and pleasant.
Sept. 26.
Bright and beautiful. MYet S:S. Scolia, Cunard Line, homeward
bound.
Sept. 27,
Pleasant
Sept. 28 .
Stiff breeze and a little hazy.
Sept. 29.
Calm and bright. Saw sand quite plain, at 12, noon, off Cape
[----?]
hailed city of Cork, 4 P.M..Sand in sight quite plain.
Sept. 30.
Cold and cloudy. Head wind. Heavy sea. A good many sick,
myself
one of the number.
Oct.1
Cloudy and cold. Wind moderate. Began to rain at 11 o'clock
A.M.
Oct. 2
Moderate and then dark and rainy. Took latitude and longitude
with
Names of cabin passengers attached. Put in bottle and sealed up
and
threw overboard.
Oct.3
Commenced to blow about midnite[midnight?] and. continued to
increase in
violence until daylight when it attained the honorable title of
hurricane. Continued all day. Ungenerous gale stole my new hat
overboard
and came very near taking my head also.
Oct.4.
The same gale still continues with unabated fury until noon
when the
wind died away a little, the sea increased in violence for the
balance
of the day and the greater part of the nite[night?]. The vessel
is tossed
about like a cork. The ship's dog "Snyder" washed overboard.
Birdcage
knocked down and songster killed
Oct. 5
Weather clear and pleasant. Sea rather unsettled. Sun shines
for
first time in 4 days.
Oct. 6
Clear and pleasant. Stiff breazes blowing deade against us.
Pain
set in about 11 o'clock and lasted all day. Strong head wind all
thru nite[night?]
Oct. 7
Strong head wind and pelting rain. Increases about noon to a
double breasted gale which continues all nite[night?].
Oct. 8
No symptoms of a change.
Oct. 9
Blowing hard in our face towards evening. Wind ceases a
little
while the sea increases and during the nite [night?] we are
tossed about in
first class style.
Oct. 10
Pleasant. Fell in with sail ins shin with her rigging
literally
torn to pieces. They no doubt weathered the same gale we did.
Octll.
Clear and pleasant. Sand in sight at 8:30 o'clock, A.M. Just
met
a steamer sent out in search of us. Fortunately we dont heed her
assistance. Reached Moville at 1:30 O'clock and are transferred
to
small steamer and arrive at Derry about 4. Put up at Roger's
Hotel
at 7.
Oct. 12
Took 9:45 A.M. train (Irish N.W. R.R.) to Belturbet.
Oct. 13.
Took car [Belturbet home?]. Start 8 A.M. Arrive 10 A.M.
Oct. 14
Clear. Walked [around?] the Lake.
Took 3 weeks for Uncle George to go to Ireland on ship. Took
Aunt Beck
3 months to come hereon a sailing vessel in 1852.
12 passengers on board the first trip.
Transcribed by Jonathan Engstrand
