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 268
ed in places withlarge and delicious 03Sters. Crossing the lagoon,we landed in a heavy forest of yellow pines.This desolate region was the home of JohnChildeers, a farmer; and we were informedthat he alone, in the entire neighborhood, wasthe possessor of oxen, and was in fact the onlyman who could… … ■iMta i-^A orr Ixv^ n Hv^t FOUR MONTHS IN A SNEAK-BOX. 247 mile came upon the clearing of the backwoods-man. His two daughters, young women, wereworking in the rieid; but the sight of a strangerwas so unusual to them, that, heedless of myremonstrances and gentle assurances of good-will, they took…
Boats and boating · Mississippi River -- Description and travel · Ohio River -- Description and travel · Mexico, Gulf of
Internet Archive · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
