Loading again we lowered to another bad place where we went into camp on the same spot where the Major had camped two years before.

We unloaded the other boats and got them down before dark, but we ate supper by firelight.

The river averaged about 250 feet wide, with a current of not less than six miles an hour and waves in the rapids over five feet in vertical height.

These waves broke up stream as waves do in a swift current, and as the boats cut into them at a high velocity we shipped quantities of water and were constantly drenched, especially the bow-oarsmen.

The cliffs on each side, wonderfully picturesque, soon ran up to 1200 or 1500 feet, and steadily increased their altitude.