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threatened us occasionally with interrup- 

 tion, from small shelves forming cascades, 

 and at length we came to three of these, 

 very near each other, which were abso- 

 lutely impassable. One of them is called 

 the waterfall of Tuken. My companion, 

 after committing all my property to my 

 own care, laid his knapsack on his back, 

 and turning the boat bottom upwards, 

 placed the two oars longitudinally, so as to 

 cross the seats. These rested on his arms 

 as he carried the boat over his head, and 

 thus he scampered away over hills and val- 

 leys, so that the devil himself could not 

 have come up with him. 



