It being midsummer the river was at flood.

The bayou is still called the False or Hardy's Colorado.
* "It is perhaps this very long and formidable range of mountains," says Pattie, "which has caused that this country of Red River has not been more explored," p.

98.
After eight days of waiting they at last got their rudder shipped, the vessel on the tide, and went back down the stream, one of the Yuma women swimming after them till taken on board.

She was landed at the first opportunity.

The interpreter told Hardy his was the first vessel that had ever visited the river, and that they took it for a large bird.