My mother at sixteen, after curlingfighting with her father, left his house in the Dominica and came to Antigua. sheShe packed all her things in an enormous in a wooden trunk that she had bought in Roseau for almost six shillings.she She painted the trunk yellow and green outside, and she lined the inside wallpaperwith wallpaper that had a cream background with pink roses all over. it.twoTwo days after she left her father's house, she boarded a boat and sailed for Antigua.it It was a small boat and the trip would have taken a day and a half ordinarily, but there was a hurricane blew up and the boat was lost at sea for almost five days. byBy the time it got to Antigua, the boat was in a particularly in splittersbad shape and thought two or three of the passengers were thought to be lost. overHowever, the boat along with some of the cargo, my mother and her trunk were safe on board.