https://202s15.cesaunders.net/files/original/448dca8171ef7dec6db970768c18ddc5.JPG 5cb1d8406042959bd26ae21b59491bf9 https://202s15.cesaunders.net/files/original/4ceda38f7b38a9f982dc842d9467cbb4.JPG 2fe5d60a6d01fd1d975e48eff13bc065 https://202s15.cesaunders.net/files/original/d610cabfe0bb6d637af9979488f1fb93.JPG c783134ca84aff7ddad5ded06310377d Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title Enter the title exactly as printed in the document or image. If there is no title, provide a brief descriptive title enclosed in square brackets. If the item is an excerpt, follow the title with "excerpt" in square brackets. See fields guide for more information. The life and adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish man; Taken from his own mouth in his passage to England from off Cape Horn in America, in the ship Hector. By a Passenger in the ship. Embellished with cuts. Creator Enter the name of the author or other creator of the document or image exactly as (s)he is identified in the document. If no author is specified there, see fields guide. Robert Paltock Date The date the document or image was originally published or created, in YYYY-MM-DD format (see fields guide for further details) 1800 Description Describe key features of the primary source and how they help to answer the research question at hand (usually the significance of a space or place to a text and/or its author or readers) The narration tells a personal account of ship life on a transatlantic voyage from Cape Horn in America to England in the late 1700’s, early 1800’s. Based on first-person records of details of the experience, we have a window of knowledge to grasp how truly difficult it was to live aboard a ship during that time period. Violent and uncooperative weather, lack of provisions, unkempt and uncomfortable living quarters, as well as an unhealthy and negative frame of mind plagued the passengers on a lengthy and harrowing journey from one continent to another. Illness was a struggle to passengers as well, as noted in Charlotte Temple, Charlotte was burdened by seasickness, a common ailment of water-bound transportation, according to the Virtual Museum of Canada, which goes into great depths of daily expedition life on a ship in the 17-1800’s. While this was written from one man’s non-fictional point of view, it gives readers of Charlotte Temple a better understanding of the characters’ transatlantic journey from England to what is now the New England area of the United States. Upon which, it also expresses the close-quarter conditions in which the passengers lived, and how difficult it was to escape the presence of any other member on the ship. One of the last points to note is the drastic decision required to pick up life from one side of the ocean and dedicate the time and journey to the other during that time. Homesickness, as mentioned in the Virtual Museum of Canada, was one of the most common emotional and mental burdens, and Charlotte experienced this as she wrote her letter to her parents, as well as our author writes, “Thus furnished and equipped, I committed myself once more to Providence and the main ocean.” Secondary source citation: “Beyond the Map – Daily Ship Life.” 11 February 2015. < http://www.beyondthemap.ca/english/daily.html>. Contributor The name of the person who obtained, uploaded, and described the item. Please use the same form of your name throughout the site. Caitlin Wordham Source* Provide an MLA-style "works cited" entry specifying details of both the original publication or distribution of the document, and where you found it (e.g. a library database). See fields guide for details. Paltock, Robert. “The life and adventures of Peter Wilkins, a cornish man; Taken from his own mouth in his passage to England, from off Cape Horn in America, in the ship Hector. By a Passenger in the ship. Embellished with cuts.” London, 1800. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale. George Mason University. 11 Feb. 2015 Rights Please copy and paste the most appropriate of the three boilerplate statements provided in the fields guide. Original document is out of copyright (it was published before 1923). Every effort has been made to comply with the provisions of any licensing agreements associated with digitization of the original document. For further information, please see the “about” page. Language A language of the resource (optional) English England Sea Travel Ships Transatlantic voyage