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by these swells which left them naked a moment after, the 

 canoe had received no material injury. The men were, 

 however, in such a state from their late alarm, that it 

 would not only have been unavailing but imprudent to have 

 proposed any further progress at present, particularly as 

 the river above us, as far as we could see, was one white 

 sheet of foaming water. 



