The current was strong, but perfectly safe.

Flocks of ducks, entirely white, except the bill and a part of the wing, rose before them.

Smoke ascending in columns from many parts of the woods showed that the country was well inhabited, and the air was fragrant with the strong odour of the gum of cypress and spruce fir.
Then came a series of cascades and falls and a most arduous portage of the heavy canoe.

These labours were somewhat lightened by the discovery of quantities of wild onions growing on the banks; but these, when mixed with the pemmican, on which the party was subsisting, stimulated their appetites to an inconvenient degree, seeing that they were on short commons.

Meeting with strange Indians they found no one to interpret, and had to use signs.