deck passage meaning in English

甲板舱位〔最廉价的舱位〕，统舱。

That warn t enough to take us fourteen hundred mile , deck passage nor no other way
靠这点儿钱，要走一千四百英里地，不论是买轮船的统舱票，或是别的什么办法，都是办不到的。
They all asked me questions , and i told them how pap and me and all the family was living on a little farm down at the bottom of arkansaw , and my sister mary ann run off and got married and never was heard of no more , and bill went to hunt them and he warn t heard of no more , and tom and mort died , and then there warn t nobody but just me and pap left , and he was just trimmed down to nothing , on account of his troubles ; so when he died i took what there was left , because the farm didn t belong to us , and started up the river , deck passage , and fell overboard ; and that was how i come to be here
他们都问我一些问题。我告诉他们说，我爸爸我和一家人是怎样在阿肯色州南头一个小农庄上的我姐姐玛丽安怎样出走，结了婚，从此杳无音讯比尔怎样出去四处寻找他们，连自己也从此没有下落汤姆和摩尔怎样也死了除了我和我爸爸，我们这一家就没有留下别的人了爸爸磨难重重，也穷得精光。所以等他一死，既然庄子不属于我们所有，我就把剩下的一点点东西带着走，打了统舱往上游去，可又掉到了水里，这才投奔到了这里。