It approaches to within one mile of the Mississippi at Eagle Bend, thirty miles above Young's Point.
Steel's Bayou connects with Black Bayou, Black Bayou with Deer Creek, Deer Creek with Rolling Fork, Rolling Fork with the Big Sunflower River, and the Big Sunflower with the Yazoo River about ten miles above Haines' Bluff in a right line but probably twenty or twenty-five miles by the winding of the river.

All these waterways are of about the same nature so far as navigation is concerned, until the Sunflower is reached; this affords free navigation.
Admiral Porter explored this waterway as far as Deer Creek on the 14th of March, and reported it navigable.

On the next day he started with five gunboats and four mortar-boats.

I went with him for some distance.
The heavy overhanging timber retarded progress very much, as did also the short turns in so narrow a stream.

The gunboats, however, ploughed their way through without other damage than to their appearance.