They Came by Boat They came by boat–poor, hungry, and desperateno first-class comforts for them, only steerage alongside jumping lice and scuttering ratsin the crowded, dark, cramped, and stifling cabin. Six to ten people in a 10-foot-wide bunkspreading an array of deadly diseases–cholera, dysentery, typhus, smallpox. Nearly twenty percent died on the voyage.  Under those dire conditions, … Continue reading Poem–They Came by Boat