On the trip over, the chief steward, he died, and he was buried at sea. And they stopped the ship and they had the Church of England service, and they explained it all to us, you know, how it was. They laid him out on a plank, and they put cannon balls around him, and then they covered him over with lead and sealed it, and stopped the ship. And they just slid him off with this funeral service of the Church of England. It took us two weeks to come over here. We came first to St. John's, Newfoundland , and stayed there two days, and they paraded us up to the sights.... And then it took us another two days to get to Halifax . In Halifax , we were in an embarkation building a couple of days till they got us all sorted out, where we were going.... It was somewheres around the first of June we got to Charlottetown . The wharf was just loaded with people to see the ship coming in, with these strangers, I suppose. Then we went up to the Lowell House , which was run by a Miss Barbara Walker - she was on a corner house right across from the Bishop's manse somewheres there on Great - and we were there till the people came in and picked up the children.... New Home I remember coming out on the Murray Harbour train. There was Andrew Dixon and a Ross fella that worked in the mill...and they were awful friendly and nice to me. But what got me was they had long, white whiskers down to their knees. There was another fella up the road there, they called him Whiskey Willie; he was a MacLeod fella, he was another fella had long whiskers down to his knees. And they was used to seeing that, you know - long, white, flowing whiskers right down to his knees. The new home was all right. The only thing I saw about it, you see, I was used to being in brick buildings, and when I came in, it was a wooden building. For a couple of weeks I couldn't sleep at night. I was scared the place would take fire. Katie MacEachern and Norman MacEachern was the ones that adopted me... . I couldn't say anything about them: they were good to me. Especially Katie. Katie's philosophy was to do good to everybody. And she certainly did it to me. Them times, you know, there was no money, and you went to the store and you booked everything. Then came the fall, you sold what potatoes and turnips and pork that you had or beef that you had... . Well then, when [the MacEacherns'd] run into debt with these stores, then Katie used to go to Boston , to work at Boston . She used to get 35 104 BELFAST PEOPLE