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CHAPTER II.
Arrival at Boston —Arlventures between Boston and New York — Buffalo
— An Asylum — Return to New York — A Voyage — On the Farm in New
Hampshire.
The good brig Ambrosius landed us in Boston on June 29,
1S."»1, but during the voyage about one-half of the
passengers were attacked by small-pox and had to be quarantined
outside the harbor. My good friend and I were fortunate
enough tocscape this plague; but instead of this I was taken
sick with the ague on our arrival at Boston.
Now, then, we were in America! The new, unknown
country lay before us, and it seemed the more strange as we
did not understand a word of the English language. For at
that time the schools of Sweden paid noattcntion toEnglish,
so that although I had studied four languages, English, the
most important ot .all tongues, was entirely unknown to me.
The first few weeks of our stav in Boston passed quietly
and quickly, but the ague grew worse and my purse was
getting empty. My friend, however, had more money than I
and as long as he had a doller left he divided it equally
between us. I cannot resist the temptation to relate a
serio-comical escapade of this period, one that to many will recall
similar occurences in their own experience as immigrants
ignorant of the language of the country.
In Gothenburg we had become acquainted with a bright
young man from Yexio, Janne Tenggren by name, who had
also served in the army. When we met him he had already
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