Four Months in a Sneak Box

by Bishop, Nathaniel H.

• ISBN13: 9781589762244
• ISBN10: 158976224X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Narrative Pr

Summary

A 2,600 mile voyage in 1875 from Pittsburgh to Florida down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in a 12 foot duck hunting boat called a Barnegat Bay Sneak Box."This curious and staunch little craft, though only 12 feet in length, proved a most comfortable and serviceable home while the author rowed it more than 2,600 miles down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, until he reached the mouth of the wild Suwanee River."

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(2)
Chapter I The Boat for the Voyage	3	(15)
Canoes for Shallow Streams and Frequent Portages
Sneak-Boxes for Deep Watercourses
History and Description of the Barnegat Sneak-Box
A Walk Down Eel Street to Manahawken Marshes
Honest George, the Boat Builder
The Building of the Sneak-Box "Centennial Republic"
It's Transportation to the Ohio River
Chapter II Sources of the Ohio River	18	(8)
Description of the Monongahela and Alleghany Rivers
The Ohio River
Exploration of Cavalier de la Salle
Names Given by Ancient Cartographers to the Ohio
Routes of the Aborigines From the Great lakes to the Ohio River
Chapter III From Pittsburgh to Blennerhasset's Island	26	(19)
The Start for the Gulf
Caught in the Ice Raft
Camping on the Ohio
The Grave Creek Mound
An Indian Sepulchre
Blennerhasset's Island
Aaron Burr's Conspiracy
A Ruined Family
Chapter IV From Blennerhasset's Island to Cincinnati	45	(18)
River Camps
The Shanty Boats and River Migrants
Various Experiences
Arrival at Cincinnati
The Sneak-Box Frozen-up in Pleasant Ruin
A Tailor's Family
A Night Under a German Coverlet
Chapter V From Cincinnati to the Mississippi River	63	(26)
Cincinnati
Music and Pork in Porkopolis
The Big Bone Lick of Fossil Elephants
Colonel Croghan's Visit to the Lick
Portage Around the 'Falls' at Louisville, Kentucky
Stuck in the Mud
The First Steamboat of the West
Victor Hugo on the Situation
A Freebooter's Den
Whooping and Sand Hill Cranes
The Sneak-Box Enters the Mississippi
Chapter VI Descent of the Mississippi River	89	(25)
Leave Cairo, Illinois
The Longest River in the World
Book Geography and Boat Geography
Chicksaw Bluff
Meeting with the Parakeets
Fort Donaldson
Earthquakes and Lakes
Weird Beauty of Reelfoot Lake
Joe Eckel's Bar
Shanty-Boat Cooking
Fort Pillow
Memphis
A Negro Justice
"De Common Law Ob Mississippi."
Chapter VII Descent of the Mississippi to New Orleans	114	(32)
A Flatboat Bound for Texas
A Flat-Man on River Physics
Adrift and Asleep
Seeking the Earth's Little Moon
Vicksburgh
Jefferson Davis's Cotton Plantation and it's Negro Owner
Dying in His Boat
How to Civilize Chinese
A Swim of One Hundred and Twenty Miles on the Mississippi
Twenty-Four Hours in the Water
Arrival in the Crescent City
Chapter VIII New Orleans	146	(11)
Bienville and the City off the Past
Franck and Spanish Rule in the New World
Louisiana Ceded to the United States
Captain Eads and His Jetties
Transportation of Cereals to Europe
Charles Morgan
Creole Types of Citizens
Levees and Crawfish
Drainage of the City into Lake Pontchartrain.
Chapter IX On the Gulf of Mexico	157	(23)
Leave New Orleans
The Roughs at Work
Detained at New Basin
Saddles Introduces Himself Camping at Lake Ponchartrain
The Lighthouse of Point Aux Herbes
The Rigolets
Marshes and Mosquitoes
Important Use of the Mosquito and Blow-Fly
St. Joseph's Light
An Exciting Pull to Bay St. Louis
A Light-Keeper Lost in the Sea
Battle of the Sharks
Biloxi
The Water-Cress Garden
Little Jennie
Chapter X From Biloxi to Cape san Blas	180	(24)
Points on the Gulf Coast
Mobile Bay
The Hermit of Dauphine Island
Bon Secours Bay
A Cracker's Daughter
The Portage to the Perdido
The Portage from the Perdido to Big Lagoon
Pensacola Bay
Santa Rosa Island
A New London Fisherman
Catching the Pompano
A Negro Preacher and White Sinners
A Day and a Night with a Murderer
St. Andrew's Sound
Arrival at Cape San Blas
Chapter XI From Cape San Blas to St. Marks	204	(11)
A Portage Across Cape San Blas
The Cow-Hunters
A Visit to the Lighthouse
Once More on the Sea
Portage Into St. Vincent's Sound
Apalachicola
St. George's Sound and Ocklockon y River
Arrival at St. Marks
The Negro Postmaster
A Philanthropist and His Neighbors
A Continuous and Protected Water-Way from the Mississippi to the Atlantic Coast
Chapter XII From St. Marks to the Suwanee River	215
Along the Coast
Saddles Breaks Down
A Refuge with the Fisherman
Camp in the Palm Forest
Parting with Saddles
Our Neighbor the Alligator
Discovery of the True Crocodile in America
The Devil's Wood-Pile
Deadman's Bay
Bowlegs Point
The Coast Survey Camp
A Day Aboard the "Ready"
The Suwanee River
The End