a NEW TRACKS IN NORTH AMERICA. 
About four miles below where the raft separated he reach} 
the mouth of a large stream, which he afterwards learned wi 
the Colorado Chiquito. The cafion through which it enter, 
the main river is very much like that of the San Juan, an} 
though it does not discharge so large a body of water, th) 
current is much more rapid, and sweeps across the Grea 
Colorado, causing, in a black chasm on the opposite bank, ¢ 
large and dangerous whirlpool. White saw this and tried t 
avoid it, but he was too weak for the task. His raft, bor 
by the current of the Colorado proper, rushed down wit! 
such force, that aided by his paddle he hoped to pass thi 
waters that appeared to sweep at right angles across hi 
course from the Chiquito. When he reached the mouth ¢ 
the latter stream the raft suddenly stopped, and swingitl 
round for an instant as if balanced on a point, it yielded # 
the current of the Chiquito and was swept into the whirlpool, 
White felt now that all further exertion was useless, a 
dropping his paddle, he clasped his hands and fell upon th 
raft. He heard the gurgling waters around him, and ever} 
moment he felt that he must be plunged into the boilin f 
vortex. He waited with his eyes closed for some minute 
when, feeling a strange swinging sensation, he opened the 
and found that he was circling round the whirlpool, som ; : 
times close to the vortex, and at others thrown back by som. 
invisible cause to the outer edge only to whirl again toward) 
the centre. Thus borne by the circling waters he looke4 
UPy: UD; UD) through the mighty chasm that seemed bend) 
ing over him as if about to fall and crush him. He sav 
in the blue belt of sky which hung above him like an etherea 
river the red tinged clouds floating, and knew that the suf 
Was setting in the upper world. Still around the whirlpooh 
: __ the raft swung, like a circular pendulum measuring the lon{ 
