Excerpt from The Country We Forgot I glanced at her dubiously so did the group of young American business men who strolled down to the wharf to see me off. The Brazos had just plowed her way into harbor through heavy seas. It was hurricane season. Could this two - master span the eighty miles of ab normally high waves to St. Thomas without mishap? It was this boat or nothing, so I put doubt behind me and went on board. Perched upon an odorous crate, I watched the Virginia load. 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.