Sox 
Had my hair been of the dramatic 
kind that realises situations, it would 
have turned white in the next ten min- 
i 
utes. The water was over the horses’ 
backs immediately, the wagon box was 
afloat, and we were being borne rapidly 
down stream in the boiling seething 
flood, when the wheels struck a shingly 
bar which gave the horses a chance to halt 
swim, half plunge. The two men, who 
were on horseback, each seized one of 
on’ the leaders, and kept his head pointed 
fora cut im the bank *the only place 
where we could get out. 
Everything in the wagon was afloat. 
MOOMAINI AN 
a ===> A leather case with a forty dollar fish- 
ing rod stowed snugly inside slipped 
quietly off down stream. I rescued my 
camera from the same fate just in time. 
Overshoes, wraps, field glasses, guns, 
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