OS es oan s still the | about twelve fe i down the boatshet 
granite, with great quantities | like an following us in the rapid 
of mica, which made a very glittering sand. | current, and his strength to ke 
We re-embarked at 90 bere iyi = in about | in mid channei—his only seen 
ee reached the t cafion. | sionally like a black s a the white foam. 
a rocky shore at ine 6 pa mence- | How far we went, exactly know; 
penite we pack nded the ridge to reconnoitre. 
the course of the cafion, on a win 
of seven or eight miles. “Tt was one a nar- 
rock re the 
iether down, as i 
rtained, five hundred feet in 
shore disappeare the vertical wall 
H 
came squarely down into the water. He 
therefore unti 
we came u 
waited 
but we peanagp ot in incoming th the boat into an 
belo La- 
te a 
e him and the 
two others on board, and trust to skill and 
fortune to reach the other end in safety. We 
placed ourselves on our knees, with the short 
paddles in our hands, the most skilful boat- 
man being at the bow; and again we com- 
menced id descent clea 
red 
rock after rock, and shot past fall after fall, 
se little boat — ng to play with the cata- 
e flushed with success, and 
Setiar with the ean aw yielding te 
nt of = occa: — 
together into a Canadian 
or rather shouting we -dash ne eae 
were, I believe, in the midst of the cho- 
rus, when the boat Pisa a conceal 
of a fall, which 
