Four months in a sneak-box. A boat voyage of 2600 miles down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers (1879)
Bishop, Nathaniel Holmes, 1837-1902. [from old catalog] · Boston, Lee & Shepard; New York, C. T. Dillingham · leaf 200
launched his boatand pushed out to the object which had excitedhis curiosity. Stretched upon the bottom of thestrange craft was a man dressed in the garbof a northern boatman. At first he appeared FOUR MONTHS IN A SNEAK-BOX. 177 to be dead; but a careful examination showedthat life was not yet… … Dying in his ^oat. Mr. Adonis Le Blanc, found upon the person ofthe dead man a memorandum-book which toldof the distances made each day upon the river,while the entries of the closing days showedhow the keeper of the log had suffered from 12 178 FOUR MONTHS IN A SNEAK-BOX. the heavy shakes ■…
Boats and boating
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