The Life and Times of Seargent Smith Prentiss (Classic Reprint)1kg Limited, 04/02/2019 - 444 páginas Excerpt from The Life and Times of Seargent Smith Prentiss Just before arriving at a landing-place, he writes, the small boat was let down, having a long rope attached. Passengers and baggage were put aboard and let loose. The small boat would then run along to the landing-place, leave the passengers, take in new ones, and the rope being immediately attached to some machinery on the steamboat, in a few min utes the small boat was along side and taken in, and the steamboat all the while under headway at twelve miles an hour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |