In searching just his name from 'Gottlieb Mittelberger's journey to Pennsylvania in the year 1750...' that Jim mentioned I found many sites, including the book in different forms - I'm looking at Google's translation online.  http://books.google.com/books?id=4KYlAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false   Betty FL     Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:41:50 EST From: Tambaymar@aol.com Subject: Re: [G-P-L] Died en route To: germany-passenger-lists@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <56dab.45f9035d.3a784e5e@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Please check out this article on Ancestry.  I had read it several  years ago.  For the reasons mentioned in this article, I think that each  passage resulted in numerous deaths, most of which went un-noted. Jim _http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/passage.htm_