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IS 136.2
Story of an Emigrant.
mv old home. A few years before this a number of
Englishmen had organized a stock company for the purpose of
draining a big swamp, and a lake called Hammarsjo, in the
vicinity of Christianstad. After expending a large sum of
money the company failed to accomplish the undertaking.
An officer in the Danish army, Captain M. Rovsing, who had
had experience in that kind of work, in company with
myself bought all the privileges and rights as well as the plant
and material of the English company, and the work was
completed under the supervision of Captain Rovsing in the
latter part of 1875. This Captain Rovsing was not only a
firstclass engineer, but also an able and good man in other
respccts. I cannot tell whether it is luck or something else,
but it is certain that I have always had the good fortune to
enter into close business connections, and to form ties of
intimate friendship, with persons distinguished by the highest
sense of honor and integrity, and of those acquaintances
Captain Rovsing occupies one of the foremost places.
During a part of this time I also contributed some time
and work toward colonizing the province of Manitoba,
and thereby gave an impetus to the establishment of the
first Icelandic colony in the Northwest.
In the spring of 187-i we moved to Gothenburg, where we
stayed until the work at Ilammersjo was completed, and in
January, 1876, we said good-bye to Sweden, and arrived
in America after a stormy voyage of nineteen days across
the Atlantic. For sixteen days the storm was so violent
that the life-boats and everything which was loose on the
deck was swept away by the waves, and the officers serving
during the night had to lash themselves to the rigging by
ropes, not daring to rely on their hands and feet.
It is strange how easily people in the course of time get
used even to the most unpleasant circumstances. This was
illustrated in a striking manner by the few cabin passengers
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