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orm overland
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Norway
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 Posted - 13/04/2009 : 15:17:15
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Since there is no passenger list available for this sailing, a brief account of the voyage may be of interest. Gunder Helgesen Skare, who lived near Decorah in Winneshiek County, Iowa, visited his old home in Eggedal in Sigdal in Buskerud, probably leaving Iowa in late april or early May. He wrote to his father Helge Gundersen August 13, 1862:
"Now that Providence has brought me well and happily here to Iowa in America I should send a few lines back to you telling you about my journey. As you know, we left Svelvik on the morning of April 16 and arrived in Quebec on June 21st from where our ship went all the way up to Montreal on June 23rd. So it took us two months and one week. So you can see that it took us a very long time to cross the great Atlantic, which was because we had a persistent head wind that several times threatened to turn us back. I was a little seasick to begin with but except for this I have been in good health. We left two dead behind, a woman who was taken ashore at Åsgardstrand to be buried and a small child who was buried at sea. We left Montreal on the 24th and came to Prairie du Chien on July 1st where I was lucky to meet Elling Vold who happened to be in town at the same time that I arrived. Our chance meeting was celebrated as a happy occasion for both of us and I left my group and arrived here at home the next day." |
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bark Askur from Dramman April 15, 1862
