to the water. So they went down along 
their new-invented ftairs, and when they came 
to the bottom in the middle of the fall, 
they refted a little ; and as the water next 
below the fall is not rapid, as before menti- 
oned, they threw themfelves out into it, 
thinking to fwim on fhore. I have faid be- 
fore, that one part of the fall is on one fide 
of the ifland, the other on the other fide. 
Hence it is, that the waters of the two ca- 
taracts running againft each other, turn back 
again ft the rock that is juft under the ifland. 
Therefore, hardly had the Indians began to 
fwim, before the waves of the eddy threw 
them with violence againft the rock from 
whence they came. They tried it feveral 
times, but at laft grew weary ; and being 
often thrown againft the rock they were 
much bruis’d, and the skin of their bodies 
torn in many places. So they were oblig’d 
to climb up their ftairs again to the ifland, not 
knowing what to do. After fome time they 
perceived Indians on the fhore, to whom they 
cried out. Thefe faw and pity’d them, but 
gave them little hopes of help : yet they made 
hafte down to the fort, and told the comman- 
der where two of their brethren were. He 
perfuaded them to try all pofflble means of 
relieving the two poor Indians; and it was 
done in this manner. The water that runs on 
the eaft fide of this ifland is fhallow, efpecially 
