Above these rocks, again, are heavy green banks, from which stunted trees grow aslant across the river.

The effect is fearsome at some points where the trees run into each other, as it were, from opposite banks.

However, the black-fishers thought nothing of these things.

They took a turnip lantern with them--that is, a lantern hollowed out of a turnip, with a piece of candle inside--but no lights were shown on the road.

Every one knew his way to the river blindfold; so that the darker the night the better.