Day 9, Location: Atlantic Ocean
Today I’m working with the sailors of the mayflower trying to find the New World. We haven’t found anything yet, and each day someone is dying either from diseases, dehydration, or hunger. It’s imperative that we find the New World because we need food and clean water to survive. I have to say that I’m nervous and scared about if I will ever die on the boat, I really want to reach the New World.
Columbus is a great man, he’s a man of short words, he is grumpy and he only talks if it’s to yell at us, or to ask us if we have seen land. If we tell him no, we didn’t find any land, he will have an angry disposition and he will yell at you. I think that Columbus tricked us to go on this trip because he said we were going to be Kings and Queens, we would be rich and wealthy, but it’s been 9 days and we’re in the middle of the Atlantic. I don’t have any diseases, but I’m really thirsty and hungry, I want to reach the New World. Columbus’s guile was horrible, he tricked us to go on this trip, I have a little hope but I hope we rich the New World soon.
Overall I think we’re doing okay, I hope that no one else dies and we find the new world soo n. I don’t think we can stay here any longer; people are having home sickness, diseases, and dying of hunger. We are struggling to survive, but I’m not sure if I’ll make it until tomorrow. I want to eat but we are almost out of food and I have to leave some for the other sailors. All of this was spontaneous, Columbus told us that we would reach the New World and we would all be okay, but we are dying, I think that Columbus is a foolish liar, but I still believe a little bit that the New World exist. Either if it exists or it doesn’t, I want to reach land as soon as possible.