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 204
OUR MONTHS IX A SXEAK-BOX. 187 however, I was enabled to steer out of harms wayand 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 MISSISSIPPI. 188 FOUR MONTHS IN A SNEAK-BOX. BelowDonaldsonvillelwas caught in the greateddy. It was about four oclock in the morningwhen I got into it, and it was good daylightbefore I succeeded in orettino- out as^ain into thedown-stream current. It was a sins^ular…
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