A Daughter of the Snows

By: London, Jack

Everybody was in everybody else's way; nor was there one who failed to proclaim it at the top of his lungs. A thousand gold-seekers were clamoring for the immediate landing of their outfits. Each hatchway gaped wide open, and from the lower depths the shrieking donkey-engines were hurrying the misassorted outfits skyward. On either side of the steamer, rows of scows received the flying cargo, and on each of these scows a sweating mob of men charged the descending slings and heaved bales and boxes about in frantic search. Men waved shipping receipts and shouted over the steamer-rails to them. Sometimes two and three identified the same article, and war arose. The "two-circle" and the "circle-and-dot" brands caused endless jangling, while every whipsaw discovered a dozen claimants.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08R97JQQG
• ISBN13: 9798583296347
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"