Copy of the original (Thanks to Edith in Switzerland) |
Transcript by Edith Maienfisch |
Translation (as close to original as possible) by Joop Giesendanner |
drey Kinderen hundert zwey und sechzig Gul= |
three Children had to spend
one hundred and sixty-two Guilders to London, whereas Gabriel Schäffer had
to pay one hundred and twenty-five Guilders just for himself since he had
to have more healthful Food because of a recent Indisposition, although
the Voyage is long, too, and one reckons that from Carolina to Rotterdam
only, it is two thousand two hundred Hours by Water among which are surely many
a bitter sad Minute, which |
Edith Maienfisch: wiewohlen [obwohl];