South America Pilot Vol 2 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Across Unknown South America, Vol. 2 of 2 When I went down to the water to examine my purchase I found that the vessel was in a pitiful condition and needed sound repairing before she could proceed on a long journey. She was sufficiently good for crossing the stream that was all she was used for by the seringueiros but it would be a different matter to go down rapids for some thousands Of kilometres. It took all the strength of my men, the seringueiros, and myself combined to pull the canoe out Of the water upon the beach and to turn her over. We worked hard for two days with saws and hammers, knives, tar, and wadding, in order to stop up a gigantic crack which extended from one end Of the canoe to the other, under her bottom. Although the crack did not go right through, I could well imagine that a hard knock against a rock might be quite sufficient to split the canoe in two. We scraped her and cleaned her; we over hauled and strengthened her thoroughly; we cut rough seats inside, and built an elevated deck upon which the baggage might be comparatively safe from moisture. 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.