The descent was quickly accomplished, and they perceived the bottom of the lost canoe above water in a little bay, whither it had been whirled by the eddy.

One man had reached the bank, but no traces could be found of the foreman, Louis Saint Jean.

We saved the canoe, out of which two guns and a case of preserved meats had been thrown into the rapid[17].

So early a disaster deeply affected the spirits of the Canadians, and their natural vivacity gave way to melancholy forebodings, while they erected a wooden cross in the rocks near the spot where their companion perished.
[17] Mr.Hood himself was the first to leap into the canoe and incite the men to follow him, and shoot the rapid to save the lives of their companions .-- DR.

RICHARDSON'S _Journal_.
The loss of this man's services, and the necessity of procuring a guide, determined us to wait for the arrival of the North-West Company's people from Fort Chipewyan, and we encamped accordingly.