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 298
fourhundred feet from the bay, and the shortest routewas the best one; so, starting energetically, wedragged the boats by main force across CrookedIsland, and launched them in the surf without FOUR MONTHS IN A SNEAK-BOX. 269 disaster. We then rowed as rapidly as the roughsea would permit along the… … Thk Portage across Crooked Island. water, we hauled our boats high on to the beach,and searched eagerly for signs of moisture in thesoil. Leaving Saddles to build a fire and prepareour evening meal, I proceeded to investigate our 270 FOUR MONTHS IN A SNEAK-BOX. new domain, and soon discovered the…
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