We also carried fine chronometers, and had a number of watches.
In the sand near the camp, which place at highest water might have formed an eddy behind some huge rocks, a few old knives, forks, a rusty bake oven, and other articles were found, the wreckage from some party prior to that of the Major's first.

He said they had not left anything of that sort, and he had noticed the same things on the former trip.
The total fall of the river here is about fifty feet, and no boat could get through without smashing.
The morning of June 20th found us early at work bringing down the two boats we had left, and as soon as this was accomplished the cargoes were put on once more, and we lowered the three one at a time, along the left bank by means of our hundred-foot hawsers, with everything in them, about a quarter of a mile to another bad place which we called Lower Disaster Falls.

Here we unloaded and made a short portage while Andy was getting dinner.

When we had disposed of this and reloaded, we pulled into the river, which averaged about 350 feet wide, with a current in places of 15 miles or more, and quickly arrived at three bad rapids in succession, all of which we ran triumphantly, though the former party made portages around them.

In the third our boat took in so much water that we made a landing in order to bail out.