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steer it successfully, sometimes between rocks and 
through channels little wider than his canoe. 
Upon one occasion, which I well recollect, Pierre led 
the way for the centre of a wild, rocky rapid. We soon 
saw that he was making for a heavy shoot between two 
great boulders, where the channel was barely wide 
enough to allow us to pass. I determined to follow, but 
our third canoe sought a channel nearer shore. Pierre, 
by keeping straight in the centre of the current, was 
shot through the ; 
notch like a rock- 
et, but my steers- 
man, less skilful, 
allowed our canoe 
to be caught by 
an eddy. Like 
a flash it was 
whirled end for 
end, and happily 
for us struck the 
shoot stern first 
instead of side- 
ways and was 
carried through safely—no thanks to the steersman. 
The third canoe fared worst of the three, for it was 
dashed upon a great flat rock and broken in the bottom. 
Its occupants, by jumping out upon the rock, managed 
to hold it until assistance could be given them. The 
load of the disabled canoe was safely landed by one of 
the others, and the damage soon repaired. 
We were now fairly beyond the limit of woods, which 
for some time past had been gradually becoming thinner 
RAPIDS, TELZOA RIVER. 
