“te 
| es, & 
“noaitra the 
Faye wn was spent in getting our 
ot spay stg Sas adlen the ne Sis rie 
receiving this tie cram, they were to con 
tinne their route, passing by certain places 
eee had been designated. r, Preuss ac- 
Hier! Be and with us ieee five of m 
sil Tiawbutiied, 
cotea 
best mbert, 
Honoré Ageh, Benoist, ‘and Descoteaux. 
sc 
Here red no scarcity of water, cc we 
took oe board, with ie cosh: = 0 ey 
baggage, provisions for r twelve day 
We paddled down ~ river rapidly, for a 
little craft was sd uck o Sard wa oe ; 
and the sun had be me time 
we heard before hatte w Seif Ae a 
i gh ipl hes that of a fall, of which we 
had he ue rumor, but whose exact 
= at ae no one ae been able to describe to 
us. We She: 5 Mena a ndge, ype 
which the + river scr ott a pla 
called 
* cation ” (pronou kanyon), a oath 
word, signifying a Piece of artillery, the ay 
rel of a gun, or any ki of tube; and which, 
in this country, has adopted to describe 
the m, which 
foams aloud below, half hibkeed ie by fallen 
nts. tween the mouth of the 
is 
Li Water and 
of 3 ~~ 
, and vo the 
passaze pelielk to bea 
foar.ing over many Sbetitic 
by a number of small falis. 
‘a ac 
Beek described to 
she still ‘coeladed ‘this 
estion, n th re floods, the rush 
of the river er agaist th the “wall would Seately 
a great rise, and the waters, reflect uarely 
off, ae descend through the resect ina 
sheet of foam, having 
ere above 
with a valuable 
rgo ver. Un: ened with the 
stream, which he believed would conduct 
him safely to the Missouri, ite came unex- 
‘ctedly into this cafion, where ne was 
wrecked, with the yell loss of his fur 
would have been of great baie and 
ped being swamped, and 
were pias o Jet her go in the ae force of 
the cu rent, and boa ai the ski 
en. The s places in ‘this fion 
were > where =F ge erocks had fallen from rang 
already narrow pass of 
ce of three or four 
aeatine raised the 
w sie: ebneeuiy cabeite 
Reo, precipitated over in a fall 
a ac 
through the contracted openin. a tremen- 
meh Had oar feat been 
sally wi dous violence. made of 
out wood, in pass narrows she would have 
smooth. — oars staved ; a her or aad preserved her 
‘made it froth“ k, and she seemed 
cra fairly t to leap cae ree falls. 
a great joey pe so secp a pa descent ‘that In this way we d three 
; d, to the ee, the ap an in- succession, rhinos ae 100 fet of prt 5 
‘elined plane. When we sitiehel into this, | water interv: finally, with a showt 
the men jumped over to check the ve- | of ene ae ur success, issued from our 
locity of the boat, but were soon in water up | tunnel into the open day beyond. We Bed 
nd ; but we | so delighted with the performance of our 
bring mall point of and so confident in her powers, that we 
call d not have hesitated to leap a fall of ten 
beach, not | feet with her. We put to shore for bre 
by the rocks, at lows on the right bank, im- 
ight | mediately below the mouth of the cafion ; for 
4 ted on jutting | it 5 
20 or 30 feet above, a other marks, | i 
that the water ntl 
