We instantly halted and, having shared the deer that was nearest to us, prepared breakfast.

After which the other deer was sent for and we went down to the river, which was about three hundred yards wide and flowed with great velocity through a broken rocky channel.

Having searched for a part where the current was most smooth, the canoe was placed in the water at the head of a rapid, and St.Germain, Solomon Belanger, and I embarked in order to cross.

We went from the shore very well, but in mid-channel the canoe became difficult to manage under our burden as the breeze was fresh.

The current drove us to the edge of the rapid, when Belanger unluckily applied his paddle to avert the apparent danger of being forced down it, and lost his balance.