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 36
upply all the materials at hisown cost. The oars and sail were not includedin the contract, but ^yere made by other parties.In November, when I settled all the bills of construction, cost of materials, oar-locks, oars,spars, sail, anchor, &c., the sum-total did notexceed seventy-five dollars;… … FOUR MONTHS IN A SNEAK-BOX. 15 it o-ave me, the best investment I had ever madein things that float upon the water. Without aname painted upon her hull, and, like the MariaTheresa paper canoe, without a flag to decorateher, but with spars, sail, oars,- rudder, anchor,cushions, blankets,…
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