But in the shadow the fall might have been almost anything and it would have been foolhardy to run it without examination, even though we found it so hard to stop.

Below the rapid that had halted us so abruptly there was nothing for about a mile but easy running, when we stopped in a cove to examine another rapid.

Prof.here started up eleven mountain sheep, but by the time he had come back to the boats for a gun they were beyond reach.

Though this rapid could be easily run, there was just below it only a short distance the fall where the _No-Name_ was wrecked on the first trip, and we would have to be cautious, for the approach to that fall we knew was treacherous.
The river comes at this point from the east, bends south, then west, and it is just at the western bend that the steep rush of the big fall begins and continues for three-quarters of a mile.

On the right the waters beat fiercely against the foot of the perpendicular wall, while on the left they are confined by a rocky point, the end of which is composed of enormous blocks.