South American Sketches (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from South American Sketches On another occasion I was travelling in a wagonette drawn by three horses harnessed abreast, when we came to the ford of a river that looked rather swollen. Every care was taken to examine it, and the general opinion was that we might safely drive across it. It was, however, desirable to lighten the load as much as possible, so we descended from the vehicle and rode over on horseback, leaving the driver alone to guide it across. Matters proceeded satisfactorily till he had reached the middle of the stream, where some confusion took place, and the horses became restive and began to plunge wildly, when all at once they moved a little to one side and got out of their depths. The wheels of the wagonette had become entangled in the branches of a fallen tree lying in the bed of the river, and could not be moved one way or the other. The pole-straps kept the horses' heads down, so that they made furious struggles to try to free themselves. Three men that accompanied me did everything in their power to release the struggling animals, but it was no easy task to perform. 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.