Dr.C.C.Parry was assistant geologist of the Survey.
"They felt the raft agitated, then whirled along with frightful rapidity towards a wall that seemed to bar all further progress.

As they approached the cliff the river made a sharp bend, around which the raft swept, disclosing to them, in a long vista, the water lashed into foam, as it poured through a narrow precipitous gorge, caused by huge masses of rock detached from the main walls.

There was no time to think.

The logs strained as if they would break their fastenings.

The waves dashed around the men, and the raft was buried in the seething waters.