Four Months in a Sneak-Box. a Boat Voyage of 2600 Miles Down the Ohio And Mississippi Rivers, And Along the Gulf of Mexico
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Her esplanade, several hundred feet in width, sweeps along the bluff, and is covered with large warehouses. Digitized by Microsoft® 144 FOUR MONTHS IN A SNEAK-BOX. Pushing steadily southward, I looked out anx- iously for a good camping-ground for the night, feeling that a rest had been well earned, for I had rowed sixty-one miles that day. Soon after passing Horn Lake Bend, the thickets of Crow Island attracted my attention, for along the mudd}', crumbling bank the inast of a little sloop arose... from the water, and a few feet inland the bright blaze of a cainp-fire shone through the mists of evening. A cheery hail of, " I say, stranger, pull in, and tie up here," came from a group of three roughly-clad men, who were bending over the coals, busily engaged in frying salt pork and pota- toes. The swift current forced me into an eddy close to the camp. One of the men caught m}' painter, and drew me close under the lee of their roughly constructed sloop of about two tons' burden. When seated by the bright fire, " the boys " told me their histor}^ They were out of work; so, investing sixty dollars in an old sloop, putting on board a barrel of pork, a barrel of flour, some potatoes, coffee, salt, and molasses, (which cargo was to last three months,) they started to cut canes in the canebrakes of White River, Arkansas.
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