Product DescriptionEIGHTEEN months the author has to the public his “Voyage Of The PAPER CANOE: – A GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNEY OF 2500 miles from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico in the years 1874-5.” The friendly reception by the American press, the author of the first journey to the great southern sea, and its republication in the UK and France within such a short time of its appearance in the United States, have encouraged him to give the public a companion volume, – “four months in a Sneak-Box” – this is a relationship between the experience of a second cruise in the Gulf of Mexico, but by a different route that was followed in the “Voyage Of The PAPER CANOE.” This time the author has a the smallest and most comfortable boats procured – a purely American model, by the bay-men of the New Jersey coast of the United States developed and recently to the gunning fraternity introduced as Barnegat sneak-BOX. This remarkable and stanch little craft, though only twelve feet long, proved to be the most convenient and serviceable home while the author rowed in it more than 2,600 miles to the Ohio and Mississippi, and along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, until he reached the goal of his trip – the confluence of the wild Suwanee River – the final stop of his “Voyage Of The PAPER canoe was.” The maps the contours of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, like the other band in the illustration, are the most reliable ever been given to the public, drawn and engraved by contract for the work of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Bureau . Download for four months in a sneak-BOX Now!
FOUR MONTHS IN A SNEAK-BOX. – Nathaniel H. Bishop
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