Life on the Mississippi<span> is a memoir of Twain's experiences as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River. As a young man, he talks his way into the </span>Paul Jones<span>, a steamer, where he pays the pilot, Mr. Bixby $500 to teach him everything he now knows.</span>
That he is the one who created him.
Im pretty sure you could use sadly declined
What is the question here because I don't see it.
For example:
1. they had absolutely no privacy because there was a lot of them, and not a lot of space on the Mayflower
2. the sea was turbulent, so accidents of slipping off the ship were bound to happen
3. boredom mostly
4. some of them might have been seasick
