Keywords
Danish, emigration, Saxonia, seasickness, travel
Abstract
Karl Jensen wrote the following diary in Danish during his journey to America in 1903. He was born in Lynga in Jutland in 1873, and from 1903 until his death in 1948 he was a chicken-farmer in Enumclaw, Washington. In the diary he take considerable pride in the fact that during the entire voyage he did not suffer from seasickness. The reason for this is that as a young man he served as a seamannon merchant ships in the Mediterranean and Pacific. On one voyage his ship entered Puget Sound. This fact and the presence of a substantial Danish colony in thw enumclaw area no doubt explai why he went there when he emigrated to America.
Recommended Citation
(1988)
"Karl Jensen's Diary,"
The Bridge: Vol. 11:
No.
1, Article 7.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thebridge/vol11/iss1/7
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