Brig Emma off the Downs
Sunday Morning
April 24. 1836

My Dear Sir

I have an opportunity in the
[tooltip color=”grey” text=”To navigate difficult stretches of water, ships took pilots on board. Pilots were coastal navigators with knowledge of their local waters and they captained the ship through the channel or harbour.”] Pilot [/tooltip] going ashore, of communicating with you once
more, ere we take our “long farewell” to you and home
We have had a more than ordinarily
smooth trip thus far, which I feel as a particular
blessing under our present circumstances so many of
our passengers never having seen the great waters before
myself as usual have been very sick, with nearly
all the other passengers, my wife excepted, I have
made arrangements with those men I thought most
appropriate to take care of the stock, those that
have been cramped I have had out of their various
domiciles, and given the range of the ships decks to
until they have recovered, I have made two of
the eldest and most steady responsible for the
general cleanliness of the [tooltip color=”grey” text=”The area of between-decks occupied by steerage passengers, that is, those travelling at the cheapest rate.”] Steerage [/tooltip], and 2 more
to keep an account of, and superintend the provisions
to observe that nothing is wasted and that all obtain
their due share, – The arrangements I have made
seems to have induced a considerable degree of comfort
and harmony, which it will be my constant object
to promote and continue, I am intending to day to
assemble all hands on the quarter deck and make use
of that [tooltip color=”grey” text=”Book of sermons”] Book of Homilies [/tooltip] you so kindly presented me
with and add a little address to it. I am persuaded
from experience of the propriety of this measure if it
were only as a relief to the dull monotony of the six
days at sea. But I have a higher and better motive
I do not stoop to such low game I fly at a higher
quarry —
…

Adieu the [tooltip color=”grey” text=”To navigate difficult stretches of water, ships took pilots on board. Pilots were coastal navigators with knowledge of their local waters and they captained the ship through the channel or harbour.”] Pilot [/tooltip] is waiting

and believe me Ever your obliged and humb

Serv^t

Cha^s S. Hare

G F Angas Esq

[excerpt of letter from Hare to Angas]

June 30 1836

Brig Emma

Lat.                Long.

Dear Sir

You will be glad to hear that
the “Brig Emma” [and?] all that are in it are well at
this date, with every prospect that they will complete
the first and most arduous part of their journey
safely … I thought it well to write you a Letter
as there may be some affairs interesting to you
individually which would perhaps present no point
of Interest to the [tooltip color=”grey” text=”South Australian Company.”] Comp^y [/tooltip] generally …
Perhaps it may interest you to give you a
slight sketch of our [tooltip color=”grey” text=”For most Christians the Sabbath is Sunday, the day they celebrate their religion. For other Christians and for Jewish people the Sabbath is Saturday.”] Sabbaths [/tooltip] at sea –
… The 2^nd Sabbath Capt Nelson read the [tooltip color=”grey” text=”A liturgical prayer consisting of a series of petitions recited by a leader alternating with fixed responses by the congregation.”] litany [/tooltip] &c and
I spoke for some time from the [tooltip color=”grey” text=”See topic of this name listed in the ‘find out more’ section at the bottom of the page.”] parable of the good
Samaritan [/tooltip], there had been a great deal of quarrelling
in the [tooltip color=”grey” text=”The area of between-decks occupied by steerage passengers, that is, those travelling at the cheapest rate.”] steerage [/tooltip] during the week, the Acton men
backing one another against the rest &c
I endeavoured to shape my observations to meet these
circumstances… During the succeeding [tooltip color=”grey” text=”For most Christians the Sabbath is Sunday, the day they celebrate their religion. For other Christians and for Jewish people the Sabbath is Saturday.”] Sabbath [/tooltip]
M^rsCaptain Nelson, thought that the [tooltip color=”grey” text=”A liturgical prayer consisting of a series of petitions recited by a leader alternating with fixed responses by the congregation.”] litany [/tooltip] was
quite enough, and that Captⁿ Nelson & M^r Douglass
had much better perform the service…  in this and
man[y] other affairs the direct interference of M^rs Captⁿ
Nelson has not only been injudicious but I think hurtful
to the general arrangements of the passengers and myself
…

Cape Town July 8 1836

Since writing the above …
…
with sincerest regards to Yourself from Myself and M^rs H

Believe me my dear Sir

yours truly

Cha^s S. Hare