The other boats were swinging at their lines and the smoke of Andy's fire whirling on the wind was a cheerful sight to the ever-hungry inner-man.

Constant exercise in the open air produces a constant appetite.

As long as we could protect our cargoes, and make our connections with our supplies as planned, we would surely not have to go hungry, but we had to consider that there was room for some variation or degree of success.

There was at least one comforting feature about the river work and that was we never suffered for drinking water.

It was only on side trips, away from the river that we met this difficulty, so common in the Rocky Mountain Region and all the South-west.
When the barometrical observations were worked out we found we had now descended 262 feet from our starting-point.