[71] Anderson, Norwegian Immigration, 50.
[72] Billed Magazin, I, 94.
[73] Translated from Billed Magazin, I, 18 ff.
[74] Ibid., 6-7.
[75] A shipping notice in the Boston Daily Advertiser, Aug. 1, 1839 reads: “Passengers,—in the “Venice” from Gothenburg, 67 Norwegians on their way to Illinois.”
[76] An oft-repeated story tells how the company was persuaded to remain in Wisconsin by some enterprising Milwaukee men who pointed out to the immigrants a fat, healthy-looking man as a specimen of what Wisconsin would do for a man, and a lean, sickly-looking man as a warning of what the scorching heats and fever of Illinois would quickly do to a man who settled there. See Billed Magazin, I, 7.
[77] Billed Magazin, I, 10.
[78] Ibid., I, 12.
[79] Ibid., I, 18.
[80] Ibid., I, 12.