It seemed an even chance; then she gained on the current and finally reached good water whence she came to our position.

Beaman had been a pilot on the Great Lakes and was expert with a steering-oar, and probably for that reason he was somewhat careless.

There was hardly an excuse in this instance for a boat not to take the proper course for the experience of the _No-Name_ told the whole story, yet the place is so peculiar and unusual that one even forewarned may fail.

Across the bay pulling was safe and we ran to a beach very close to the head of the falls where we made our camp, the sun now being low and the huge cliffs casting a profound and sombre shadow into the bottom.

It was a wild, a fierce, an impressive situation.