We had not gone twenty yards before the canoe, striking on a sunken rock, went down.

The place being shallow we were again enabled to empty it and the third attempt brought us to the shore.

In the meantime Belanger was suffering extremely, immersed to his middle in the centre of a rapid, the temperature of which was very little above the freezing-point, and the upper part of his body covered with wet clothes, exposed in a temperature not much above zero to a strong breeze.

He called piteously for relief and St.Germain on his return endeavoured to embark him but in vain.

The canoe was hurried down the rapid and when he landed he was rendered by the cold incapable of further exertion and Adam attempted to embark Belanger but found it impossible.