Excerpt from Chita: A Memory of Last Island Panting, screaming, scraping her bot tom over the sand-bars, - all day the little steamer strives to reach the grand blaze of blue Open water below the marsh-lands; and perhaps she may be fortunate enough to enter the Gulf about the time of sun set. For the sake of passengers, she trav els by day only; but there are other ves sels which make the journey also by night - threading the bayou-labyrinths winter6 Cfiz'ta: A Memory of Last Island. 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.