So ?" He wheeled and went away at a trot.

All he had given them was the one thing they lacked.
The Wingate wagons came in groups and halted at the river bank, where the work of rafting and wagon boating went methodically forward.

Scores of individual craft, tipsy and risky, two or three logs lashed together, angled across and landed far below.

Horsemen swam across with lines and larger rafts were steadied fore and aft with ropes snubbed around tree trunks on either bank.

Once started, the resourceful pioneer found a dozen ways to skin his cat, as one man phrased it, and presently the falling waters permitted swimming and fording the stock.