It was a difficult job, requiring great exertion in lifting and pushing and fending off, so when Prof.gave the word to camp on the left, we were all glad enough to do so.

We had made only 5-1/4 miles and seven rapids.
The let-downs had been hard ones, with a couple of men on board to fend off and two or three on the hawser holding back.
The next morning, August 15th, we made another let-down around a bad piece of river, and ran two or three small rapids before dinner.

At the let-down the water dropped at least ten feet in two hundred yards, and Prof.estimated thirty in half a mile.

The river was also narrow, not more than sixty or seventy feet in one place.

Many rocks studded the rapids, and great caution had to be exercised both in let-downs and in runs, lest the boats should be seriously injured.