Then we were brought up by another rapid, a very bad one.

Evening was drawing on and every man was feeling somewhat used up by the severe exertions of the day.

Camp was therefore ordered at the head of this rapid in the midst of scenery that has probably as great beauty, picturesqueness, and grandeur as any to be found in the whole West.

I hardly know how to describe it.

All day long the surroundings had been supremely beautiful, majestic, but at this camp everything was on a superlative scale and words seem colourless and futile.