Finally, the Emma Dean was brought down, and Jack Sumner undertook to reach the island in her.

Keeping well up stream, as near the first fall as he could, a few bold strokes enabled him to land near the lower end.

Then, all together, they pulled the boat to the very head of the island and beyond that as far as they could stand up in the water.

Here one man sat on a rock and held the boat steady till the others were in perfect readiness to pull with all their power, when he gave a shove and, clinging on, climbed in while the oarsmen put their muscle to the test.

The shore was safely attained, and Powell writes: "We are as glad to shake hands with them as though they had been on a voyage around the world, and wrecked on a distant coast." This disaster was most serious, even though the men were saved, for, besides the loss of the craft itself, all the barometers by some miscalculation were on the No-Name.