Adventurers And Exiles: The Great Scottish Exodus by Marjory Harper

Author:Marjory Harper [Harper, Marjory]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2010-07-23T04:00:00+00:00

Do not distress yourself preparing great store of things, as if you could get nothing here. We can buy cotton prints, and cotton of all kinds, as cheap as at home … You will have to supply your own bedding on board of ship. Bring some blankets, as they are scarce here; 2 tea kettles, brander, and crook. Be sure to pack your dishes well. 16

Another Zorra emigrant offered practical advice about life at sea, advising emigrants against berths opposite the hatchway if they wanted to avoid getting soaked, to take tin jugs and bowls instead of crockery, to mark all tin dishes, and to fit locks to all boxes and barrels in case the sailors or fellow passengers took a fancy to their contents.

In 1841 Robert MacDougall published Ceann-Iuil an Fhir-Imrich, or The Emigrant’s Guide to North America. Written in Gaelic five years after the author had himself emigrated from Perthshire to Goderich in Upper Canada, it was directed specifically at Highlanders, whom he wished to counsel in ‘how to leave, how to arrive, and what to do after arriving’. In a section entitled ‘Preparations’, he encouraged them to bring protective clothing and bedclothes, which were almost twice the price in Canada. They should bring spades and nails, but not small carpentry tools or axes, since ‘the emigrant will not get the time to trifle with carpentry in Canada’. He also gave advice on personal security and health:

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