Besides fish, these people supplied us with filberts and berries, and we purchased a dog for supper; but it was with much difficulty that we were able to buy wood enough to cook it." On the twenty-third the voyagers made the descent of the great falls which had so long been an object of dread to them.

The whole height of the falls is thirty-seven feet, eight inches, in a distance of twelve hundred yards.

A portage of four hundred and fifty yards was made around the first fall, which is twenty feet high, and perpendicular.

By means of lines the canoes were let down the rapids below.

At the season of high water the falls become mere rapids up which the salmon can pass.