CSPAN2 Book TV July 5, 2009
one of these ships were anchored in wall about bay a shallow inlet on the brooklyn side of the east river. to a man the americans who made it through the winter of 1776, 77 on the wall about hooks told of almost unimaginable horrors. james little was on a chip ship so crowded that the men couldn't lie down all at once and their rations barely sufficed to keep body and soul together. in the morning they received half a point of the water is to. in the evening they received scraps of cannell biscuit. he added in the putrefied stagnated air of the hold of the vessel crowded with furman ...