Prof.skilfully threw his boat to one side and succeeded in avoiding a collision.

Nothing could be done with our boat but to let her go where she would for the moment.

We then ran two other rapids, rough ones too, but there was no trouble in them for any of the boats.

The velocity at this stage of water was astonishing, and the opportunities to land in quiet water between the rapids now were few.
[Illustration: Canyon of Lodore.
Low water.
Photograph by J.K.Hillers, 1874.] About dinner-time as we emerged at high speed from one rapid we saw immediately below lying in ominous shadow, another.

It had a forbidding look.