One cliff not far from camp appeared to be nearly perpendicular.
Steward got up very early the next morning in order to mend his shoes, and he succeeded so well as cobbler, we declared he had missed his calling, but we did not start till ten o'clock, waiting for Beaman to take views.

The first thing we then did was to run a very shallow rapid, followed by another, long, difficult, narrow, and rocky.

Then there was a short, easy one, with the next below compelling a very hard let-down.
There was nothing but rocks, large rocks, so close together that it was all we could do to manoeuvre the boats between them.

There was no channel anywhere.

For the greater part of the way we had to pull them empty over the rocks on driftwood skids which taxed our muscles considerably and of course saturated our clothing for half the time we were in the water, as was always the case at let-downs.