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moments before expected death. He felt a dizzy sensation, 
and thinks he must have fainted; he knows he was uncon- 
‘Scious for a time, for when again he looked up between the 
walls, whose rugged summits towered 5,000 feet above 
him; the red clouds had changed to black, and the heavy 
Shadows of night had crept down the cation. 
Then, for the first time, he remembered that there was a 
‘Strength greater than that of man, a power that holds the 
ocean in the hollow of His hand. ‘“T fell on my knees,” he 
said, “and as the raft swept round in the current, I asked 
God to aid me. I spoke as if from my very soul, and said, 
‘Oh, God! if there is a way out of this fearful place show it 
to me; take me to it.’”” Here White’s voice became husky, 
and his somewhat heavy features quivered as he continued— 
“Twas still looking up with my hands clasped when I felt 
a different movement in the raft, and turning to look at the 
whirlpool, it was some distance behind, and I was floating 
down the smoothest current I had yet seen in the cafion.” 
_ This statement is the only information White volunteered ; 
all the rest was obtained by close questioning. One of his 
friends who was present during the examination smiled 
when White repeated his prayer. He noticed it, and said 
with some feeling: ‘It is true, Bob, and I’m sure God took 
‘me out.” 
Below the mouth of the Colorado Chiquito the current was 
“very slow, and White felt what he subsequently found to be 
the case—viz., that the rapids were past, though he was not 
equally fortunate in guessing his proximity to Calville. The 
Course of the river below this he describes as exceedingly 
‘crooked, with short, sharp turns,” the view on every side 
eing shut in by flat precipitous walls of ‘“ white sand-rock.” 
ese walls presented white perpendicular surfaces to the 
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