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power boat returned with a small sail boat. 

 Some one had tampered with the machinery 

 of the power boat and it would not go; so he 

 had to hire a man who had a sail boat and 

 bring him along. The wind was still high, 

 and we could not risk the small boat with such 

 a big load as we had, therefore another day 

 was lost. The following day the wind had 

 calmed down enough to permit us to "line" 

 the boat down along the shore. In other 

 words, one man stayed in the boat to steer 

 her, while three men with a long rope on their 

 backs walked along the edge of the lake and 

 thus towed her. This method was continued 

 all the afternoon and a portion of the next 

 day. The wind having now gone down, we 

 were able to row the boat the balance of the 

 distance. We landed about dark on the bank 

 of a glacial river, whose great volume of ice- 

 cold water emptying directly into the lake is 

 solely responsible for that important body of 

 water. 



It is best to reserve the description of this 

 glacial river for another chapter, as it fully 

 deserves a big chapter all to itself. 



