Gottlied Mittelberger described the voyage European indentured servants took to America. The servants were treated much better by the sailors than the slaves were. They were not whipped for beaten for not eating, they all had beds, and none of them were chained up. The ship was crammed with hundreds of passengers Mittelberger described it as “people packed densely, like herrings.”(77) The servants faced similar hygiene issues that the slaves had, the fumes were so bad they made people sick. There was vomit and lice everywhere. Many people died of decease. All the food they had was rotten and heavily salted. Mittelberger described the water as “very black, thick and full of warms.”(79) By the time they landed in Pennsylvania over 32 children