August, 1920 
FOREST AND STREAM 
473 
Uioix we had heard a great deal about 
Kettle River Rapids and their character, 
some times they were eight miles long 
and dangerous ; again only five and noth- 
ing serious. So we pushed forward. 
We found the ferryman’s information 
correct, just below the mouth of Bear 
Creek we ran into a fierce little rapid, 
not dangerous at all, though a canoist 
should keep his eyes open lest he run 
upon a “round-head”; always there are 
plenty of those in the upper St. Croix, 
great sharp fellows just beneath the sur- 
face. A small saw-mill upon the Wis- 
consin bank was busy converting dead- 
heads into lumber, and continually we 
were running upon crews of men at work 
raising the water-logged timbers from 
the bottom where they had slept since 
*he heyday of the lumber industry. At 
times we would find hundreds of logs 
with one end just protruding above the 
surface, the other being firmly imbedded 
in the silt of the bottom. To run into 
such a “nest” in the night might easily 
prove disastrous, for the swift current 
snarled around, and sucked down beneath 
them most suggestively. 
Quickly leaving the little mill behind 
we swung into the next rapid, fierce and 
shallow, missing some sharp rocks by 
altogether too close a margin for com- 
fort. Rapid follow rapid in quick suc- 
cession, with only a breathing space be- 
tween. Once in a rapid there was no 
time for consultation as to the course, 
that the steersman had to map out be- 
fore entering. As George put it: “Once 
in the swift water we do not have to 
wait for things to happen; they happen.” 
Once we struck and struck hard, hang- 
ing on a flat-topped reef in the very cen- 
ter of the broad river for some seconds. 
Despite our united efforts the canoe 
swung around. Had there been an up- 
reaching rock, or even an inequality in 
the reef, we would have spilt instantly. 
Fortunately the boat swung clear and 
worked free. It is a reef to beware of 
and I have no landmarks in mind to aid 
other canoeists to escape it. Later on I 
met an old riverman and he said many 
a bateau came to grief on that reef in 
the day of the rivermen; he had a name 
for it which I wish I could remember, 
my recollection being that the common 
title of his Satanic Majesty played an 
important part in its make-up. 
Below one of the shoots we discovered 
an ancient Indian standing beside a beau- 
tifully constructed birch-bark canoe, the 
latter being sufficiently rare to cause us 
to stop and attempt to enter into con- 
versation with the ‘aborigine; but to all 
our questions he responded with a head- 
shake, either he could not or would not 
understand. I am sorry that he refused 
to stand for his picture, but he was 
camera-shy and we left him. 
We ate our mid-day meal on the rocky 
point of an island that loomed in the 
middle of the river, its wooded surface 
being some fifteen or twenty feet above 
the water. What an ideal place for a 
summer cottage, or for a night camp; 
had it been near sunset instead of mid- 
day we would have made camp upon its 
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lingered long enough to eat dinner, then 
wp were upon our way once more. 
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