Before the ebb has finished running the flood commences, boiling up full eighteen inches above the surface and roaring like the rapids of Canada." Had he known what we now know he might have found a simile nearer his position at the moment.

Finding he could make no further progress with the a schooner, he took a small boat and continued his voyage in it, though not for any great distance, as he returned to the vessel at night.

Five or six thousand Yumas were seen, but they were entirely friendly.

He thought the mouth of the Gila was below his stranded vessel, but he was mistaken in this, for it was in reality a great many miles farther up.

What he took for the Gila was the main Colorado itself, and what he thought was the Colorado was only a bayou or flood-water channel.