CHAPTER XI.
Easier travel--The girls improve--How the blacks received them--A large hut--A dainty dish--What might have been--The girls decorate their home--Bruno as a performer--"A teacher of swimming"-- How we fought depression--Castles in the air--A strange concert--Trapping wild-cats--The girls' terror of solitude--Fervent prayer--A goose-skin football--How I made drums.
At length we came to a stately stream that flowed in a NNE.

direction to Cambridge Gulf.

This, I believe, is the Ord River.

Here we constructed a catamaran, and were able to travel easily and luxuriously upon it, always spending the night ashore.

This catamaran was exceptionally large, and long enough to admit of our standing upright on it with perfect safety.