Four months in a sneak-box : a boat voyage of 2600 miles down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and along the Gulf of Mexico (1879)
Bishop, Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes), 1837-1902 · Boston : Lee & Shepard ; New York : C.T. Dillingham · leaf 194
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 Boat. 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 from12 178 FOUR MONTHS IN A SNEAK-BOX. the heavy shakes…
Boats and boating · Mississippi River -- Description and travel · Ohio River -- Description and travel · Mexico, Gulf of
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