Two men came very near being drowned.

All the sugar belonging to one of the messes was dissolved in the water and lost." But the heaviest calamity of all was the loss of a bag containing the coffee for the whole company.

There is nothing so refreshing to a weary mountaineer, as a cup of hot coffee.

Often afterwards these travellers, overcome with toil, mourned the loss of their favorite beverage.
Kit Carson had made such efforts in the water, that in the morning he was found quite sick.

Another of the party also was disabled.