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Show • Figure 17.-Light-Houso Rook iu tho Canon of Desolation. • BRADLEY'S MISIJAP. 49 and find Sumner and Dunn clinging to her. As soon as wo reach quiet water, we all swim to one side and turn her over. In doing this, Dunn loses his hold and goes under; when he comes up, ho is caught by Sumner and pulled to tho boat. In the mean time we have drifted down stream some distance, and see another rapid below. How bad it may be we cannot tell, so we swim toward shore, pulling our boat with us, with all the vigor possible, but are carried down much faster than distance toward shore is gained. At last we reach a huge pile of drift wood. Our rolls of blankets, two guns, and a barometer were in the open compartment of the boat, and, when it wont over, these were thrown out. 'fhe guns and barometer are lost, but I succeeded in catching one of the rolls of blankets, as it drifted by, when we wore swimming to shore; tho other two aro lost, and sometimes hereafter we may sleep cold. A huge fire is built on the bank, our clothing is spread to dry, and then from the drift logs we select one from which we think oars can be made, and tho remainder of the day is spent in sawing them out. Jtttly 12.-This morning, the new oars are finished, and we start onco more. We pass several bad rapids, making a short portage at one, and before noon we come to a long, bad fall, where the channel is filled with rocks on tho left, turning the waters to the right, where they pass under an overhanging rock. On examination, we determine to run it, keeping as close to the left hand rocks as safety will permit, in order to avoid tho over hanging cliff. The little boat runs OYer all right; another follows, but the men arc not able to keep her near enough to tho left bank, and she is car~ ·ied, by a swift chute, into great waves to .the right, where she is tossed about, and Bradley is knocked over the sido, but his foot catching under tho scat, he is dragged along in tho water, with his hoad down; making great exertion, he seizes tho gunwale ·with his left hand, and can lift his head above water now and then. To us who are below, it seems impossible to keep the boat from going under tho overhanging cliff; but Powell, for the moment, heedless of Bradley's mishap, pulls with all his power for half a d zen strokes, when the danger is past; thon he seizes Bradley, and pulls him in. Tho men in the boat above, seeing this, land, and she is lot down by linos. Just here we emerge from the Canon of Desolation, as we have named 7 (JOL |