So the swan moored alongside, and he embarked,—deck passage.
The captain told me he could not give my family even a deck passage, so crowded was the vessel.
He said, however, that he thought he could make room for us if we would take a deck passage.
After considerable 'higgling' with the captain of a schooner I arranged for deck passage at a cost of three dollars.
It was a fine morning and we were enjoying ourselves with a deck passage at that.
That warn't enough to take us fourteen hundred mile, deck passage nor no other way.
At half-past ten, sir, then being slightly under the influence of liquor, he accepted the price of a deck passage to Stockton.
In ordinary times fares ranged from ₱50 saloon accommodation to ₱8 a deck passage.
