Those great tows cover acres of river space and it is a hard matter to tell which way they are going to turn.

Observing one of the Government lights which are now placed along the rivers as a guide to mariners, he steered for it.

He landed and climbing the ladder to the lantern, was proceeding to get a light for his lamp, when a big dog rushed furiously up and held him treed on the lamp post.

The light keeper hearing the victorious barking of the dog, came out with a gun and Paul could not explain his presence there any too quickly.

The keeper called off the dog, gave the Captain a supply of matches, who lighted up his bull's eye and was soon forging ahead again.