Here the loads were replaced, and with our good long and strong lines an inch thick, the boats were sent down several hundred yards in the rather level water referred to intervening between the foot of the upper fall and the head of the lower, to the beginning of the second descent.

This all occupied much time, for nothing could be done rapidly, and noon came, in the midst of our work.

Anticipating this event Andy had gone ahead with his cook outfit and had baked the dinner bread in his Dutch oven.

With the usual fried bacon and coffee the inner man was speedily fortified for another wrestle with the difficult and laborious situation.

The dinner bread was baked from flour taken out of a hundred-pound sack that was found lying on top of an immense boulder far above the river.