th. Upon this she placed the baby, which
objected at first to go to bed, squalled a good deal, and kicked a
little. The mother therefore took it up, turned it over, gave it one or
two hearty slaps, and laid it down again.

This seemed to quiet it, for it afterwards lay straight out, and
perfectly still, with its coal-black eyes staring out of its fat brown
face, as if it were astonished at receiving such rough treatment. The
mother next spread a little moss over the child, and above that she
placed another small blanket, which she folded and tucked in very
comfortably, keeping the little one's arms close to its sides, and
packing it all up, from neck to heels, so tightly that it looked more
like the making up of a parcel than the wrapping up of a child. This
done, she drew the scarlet cloth over it from each side of the cradle,
and laced it down the front. When all was done, the infant looked like
an Egyptian mummy, nothing but the head being visible.

The mother then leaned the cradle against the stem of a tree, and
immediately one of the dogs ran against it, and knocked it over.
Luckily, there was a wooden bar attached to the cradle, in front of the
child's face, which bar is placed there on purpose to guard against
injury from such accidents, so that the bar came first to the ground,
and thus prevented the flattening of the child's nose, which, to say
truth, was flat enough already!

Instead of scolding herself for her own carelessness, the Indian mother
scolded the dog, and then hung the child on the branch of a tree, to
keep it from further mischief.

The next turn in the river revealed a large waterfall, up which it was
impossible to paddle, so they prepared to make a portage. Before
arriving at the foot of it, however, Jasper landed Heywood, to enable
him to make a sketch, and then the two men shoved off, and proceeded to
the foot of the fall.

They were lying there in an eddy, considering where was the best spot to
land, when a loud shout drew their attention towards the rushing water.
Immediately after, a boat was seen to hover for a moment on the brink of
the waterfall. This fall, although about ten or fifteen feet high, had
such a large body of water rushing over it, that the river, instead of
falling straight down, gushed over in a steep incline. Down this
incline the boat now darted with the speed of lightning. It was full of
men, two of whom stood erect, the one in the bow, the other in the