Then we had dinner while waiting for the _Canonita_ which had remained behind for pictures.
A part of my work was to make a continuous outline sketch of the left wall for the use of the geologists and this I was able to do as we went along.

I had a pocket on the bulkhead in front of my seat in which I kept a sole leather portfolio, which I could use quickly and replace in the waterproof pocket.
The walls of the canyon became more flaring as soon as the rapid was passed at noon, but they lost none of their majesty.

We now expected very bad river and whirlpools from the experience of the first party, but the river is never twice alike.

Not only does its bottom shift, but every variation in stage of water brings new problems or does away with them entirely.

It was an agreeable surprise to be able to run three rapids with ease by four o'clock, when we saw on some rocks two hundred feet above the stream a flock of mountain sheep.