. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. CHAPTER VIII. The Mortality that Sometimes came upon the Immi-grants on Ship-board.—Organization of the GermanSociety of Pennsylvania, and its excellent Work.—Lands assigned to Redemptioners at the End of theirTerms of Service, on easy Terms. Erward in engen Koje Kalt,Kam nie zuriick zum hat ihn auf ein Brett geschnallt,Und warf ihn iiber Bord. Dem bieten grane Eltern nochZum letztenmal die Hand ;Den Koser Bruder, Schwester, Freund ;Und alles schweigt, und alles weint,Todtbloss von uns gewandt. fN a general way, themortality among th
. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. CHAPTER VIII. The Mortality that Sometimes came upon the Immi-grants on Ship-board.—Organization of the GermanSociety of Pennsylvania, and its excellent Work.—Lands assigned to Redemptioners at the End of theirTerms of Service, on easy Terms. Erward in engen Koje Kalt,Kam nie zuriick zum hat ihn auf ein Brett geschnallt,Und warf ihn iiber Bord. Dem bieten grane Eltern nochZum letztenmal die Hand ;Den Koser Bruder, Schwester, Freund ;Und alles schweigt, und alles weint,Todtbloss von uns gewandt. fN a general way, themortality among theimmigrants resulting fromthe crowded condition of theships, the bad character ofthe provisions and waterand frequently from thescant supply of the same,the length of the voyageand other causes, has al- ,149The arms, or -uappen, of the Palatinate is an imposing piece of heraldicart, sufficient, one would think, to do honor to a land a thousand times the size(256). ARMS OF THE PALATINATE Appalling Death Rate Among Immigrants. 257 ready been alluded to. But it is only when we come downto an actual presentation of the records that have reachedour day, that we get a correct idea of the appalling char-acter of the death rate upon which the German settlementsin Pennsylvania were built. Doubtless something beyondthe ordinary was seen in the migration from Europe toother portions of the American continent, but as that migra-tion was more circumscribed in its numbers and the ra-pidity of its inflow, so also was the death rate attending iton a minor scale. It is surprising that the reality, as it be-came known in the Fatherland, did not hold back the mul-titudes anxious to come over. Perhaps the ebb and flow,as we now know it, greater in some years, and then againgreatly diminished in others, may be accounted for by thefears that came upon the intending immigrants as lettersfrom friends gradually drifted back to the old home. Some of the Palatinate. Even
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