Excerpt from Reminiscences of a Virginia Physician, Vol. 1 of 2 This small apartment was again divided by a canvas screen, raised during the day and let fall at night, so as to leave the forward and larger portion for male passengers, and the aft part, a small enclos ure scarcely ten feet by six in size, for females. In the cabin were three windows and a door opening upon the foot-walk or guard. 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.