So they got into their boats and started on the smooth waters, so soon shattered into raging billows.

Though filled with water, the boats all rode successfully and came out below crowned with success.

Often a rapid is greatly augmented by enormous boulders which have been washed into the river from some side canyon, and, acting like a dam, block the water up and cause it to roar and fret tenfold more.

Black and dismal is this granite gorge; sharp and terrible the rapids, whose sheeted foam becomes fairly iridescent by contrast.

The method of working around some of the worst places is illustrated well by the following extract: "We land and stop for an hour or two to examine the fall.