A Sunday in Battery Park - Kristina Från Duvemåla

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Kristina survived the crossing. Of 78 travellers, 70 reached NY. Eight were buried at sea. So, the small crowd saw the land. It was their goal. After disembarking from the Charlotte [the boat on which they travelled across the Atlantic] they bought a ticket from the East River jetty on Midsummers Eve on 1850. They had spent 2½ months at sea. Kristina was in poor health scurvy had taken her strength. She wanted, however, to take her first steps in America with her own strength, and so she did. All sorts of swindlers whirled around them propositioning them. People met them in Battery Park - men in top hats and women in splendid hats and skirts walked there. It was, for the peasants, certainly an extremely strange sight.

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