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16_56 London to Liverpool Took midnight train from Euston station. Arrived in Liverpool about 6:30 a.m. Liverpool is much like Glasgow. Embarked on the Candian [sic] Pacific Liner Lake Manitoba at 5:00 p.m. Just before going aboard I was much struck by the appearance and manner of a herd of Russian peasants as the [sic] passed with their belongings from the dock on to the landing stage to go abord [sic] the White Star liner for Philadelphia. Their dull faces lighted with hope as they hurried back and forth for their baggage - they were escaping from the serfdom |
16_57 July 3, 1906 of centuries, their hearth vaguely fired with the promise of the great free land beyond the seas. Yet there were faces among them - heads of exceedingly low intellectual type that I would gladly have seen fended from our shores. The Lake Manitoba steamed out into the Irish Sea and the next morning we were on the north shore of Ireland. After a while_ we saw the Giants Causeway, a line of very low-lying rocks appearing above the water. The next day we were quite at sea. I enjoy the voyage very much. The head |
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