Excerpt from Five Months in the Argentine: From a Woman's Point of View, 1918 to 1919 It seemed perilous enough to go into those little danc ing boats oneself, but to have one's precious belongings of trunks and hand bags lowered by ropes from the big ocean liner seemed almost overwhelming, for, as we had unloaded at the different ports at which we had stopped on our way down, the liner had become lighter and lighter and had risen higher and higher out of the water, until now the small row boats seemed-like mere specks on the waves below. 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.