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 234
to make a night of it, leaving mein the care of my protectors on the schooner,who had been busy deciding what they shoulddo in case of any assault being made on me bythe roughs, and showing their brawny arms ina menacinor manner when the worst threatsreached their ears. I did not know this at the… … ^. FOUR MONTHS IN A SNEAK-BOX. 215 slender cord held on to his vessel. All throughthe hours of that lonsf nio^ht the kind-heartedmaster paced his deck; and then, as the sunarose, and the damp vapors settled to the earth,he hailed me with a pleasant good morning;and added, ifthose devils had jumped…
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