We Sold Our Homesteads

We all were packed together in one unhealthy cave it was as if we'd stepped into an open grave. The food that we had brought from blessed Swedish land was suddenly forbidden and taken from our hand. And when we had been sailing for just a week or two a horrid kind of darkness was clouding our view. We couldn't see each other and hardly breathe or walk it was a gruesome anguish for all people aboard. The air was filled with hunger and drenched in wretched cries, the howling and the noises would pierce right through the skies and death became the ruler that forces us to our knees. The dead were buried in the horrid fathom of the seas.