ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 4月23日 20時46分

photo by @lynseyaddario | words by @neilshea13 — Salt, diesel, sea, steel. Aboard the ship that saved him an African migrant prays above the ceaseless hum of engines. Perhaps he is Muslim, perhaps Christian. In any case he is a pilgrim, and has been a long while coming this way. One morning on the Godetia a cheerful young Eritrean named William, himself a pilgrim just pulled from the sea, describes his life in numbers: It has been four years since he started working toward Europe. Seven are the brothers and sisters waiting behind at home. Twenty years since his mother died, and thirty since his father disappeared. One thousand dollars for the truck that took him across the Sahara. Two thousand for a seat on the raft that left Libya. Five thousand for all the miles he has traveled. And two for the nights he spent at sea, awake and shivering, while air leaked out of his raft. Today, he says, everything starts over, at zero. Our lives are saved, he says. It’s amazing. We knew the Europeans would save us. We have been told this for a long time, and this is why we come. If God had anything to do with it, William says he’ll thank Him. For now, he’ll thank the Belgian crew of the Godetia, who intercepted his raft before it sank. We stand talking beneath a cloudless sky. The ship rolls, it is very hot, and the steel deck burns William’s feet, which are bare and salt-pruned. He hops from one to another and then—he remembers. He reaches into his pockets and finds two bright white socks that are, somehow, still dry. William grins, slips them on, and says They’re all I have.
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This is the third in a six-part Instagram series on African migration toward Europe. Last June, @neilshea13 and @lynseyaddario sailed with the Belgian navy as it patrolled the Mediterranean, rescuing travelers who’d begun the dangerous middle crossing. Join us as we share stories from the journey.
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