EUNNING THE RAPIDS 



camp most of the time, and to wade through no end of mud ' 

 whenever we ventured out. 



On the evening of the 14th the long-looked-for scows with 

 the supplies arrived. It will readily be imagined we were 

 not long in getting out the provisions and making ready a 

 supper more in keeping with our appetites than the meagre 

 meals with which we had for several days been forced to 

 content ourselves. The cause of delay, as Schott informed 



STEAMER '• GRAHAME." 



us, was the grounding of some of the boats in one of the- 

 rapids, in consequence of which the cargoes had to be re- 

 moved by his men and carried on their shoulders to the 

 shore, the boats then freed, lowered past the obstruction and 

 reloaded. Such work necessarily entails considerable delay 

 and is of a slavish character, as all hands have to work in the 

 ice-cold water for hours together. 



Receiving again our four hundred pounds of supplies front 



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