An immense rock stuck up in the middle of the river and the water divided on this and shot down on each side in a sharp fall of about eight feet.

Each was a clear chute and not dangerous to look at, but the effect of so sudden a plunge on one of our loaded boats was too much of a problem for trial.

A portage was decided on.

The left bank where we were was a mass of enormous broken rocks where it seemed next to impossible to haul a boat.

A foot trail was first built which led up some fifty feet above the river, and over, under and around huge boulders to a place down below where it was proposed to carry the boats on skids.