SEA SMELLS
After some trouble I got a berth on a twelveton cutter; a poky little cabin it was, about ‘six feet square, with a few thin battens separating us from the hold. There were three other Passengers in with me, and what with the four bunks: round the wall and the table in the centre, we just about had to form single file every time we moved. There was the stench from the. fish oil lamp swinging about our heads, a good assortment of odours from the cargo in the hold, and every now and then I got a most unmistakable whiff of poultry-pens. But when we got out to sea and the bilge water got shaken up a bit, well, that was the last straw. It took us ten days to- make the trip-it’s a little over a day’s run in fine weather-and we had to run for shelter twice, and passed a dismal forty-eight hours at anchor on the lee side of an island, pitching and tossing in a south-east gale. ("Background of New Zealand-Sea Transport," prepared by F. Lingard, 2YA, August 26).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 64, 13 September 1940, Page 5
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186SEA SMELLS New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 64, 13 September 1940, Page 5
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