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 210
R MONTHS IN A SNEAK-BOX. 187 however, I was enabled to steer out of harms w^ayand to keep steadily moving down the stream. Above Donaldsonville I was met by a fleetof boats filled with spectators, who accompaniedme down to that point, which I reached abouteight oclock in the evening. The town… … BOYTON DESCENDING THE y^vllSSISSI PPI. 188 FOUR MONTHS IN A SNEAK-BOX. BelowDonaldsonvillel was caught in the greateddy. It was about four oclock in the morningwhen I got into it, and it was good daylightbefore I succeeded in o^ettins^ out asfain into thedown-stream current. It was a singular…
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