ey all cried in a chorus.

We therefore unloaded the canoe, and with considerable trouble and waste
of time we led her down the rapid by means of ropes. Even led in that
fashion with the greatest care, the canoe was entirely filled with
water.

Islets of rock of considerable beauty rose from the river on the
right-hand side. As we got a little way farther, slightly more to the
north-west, another hill range, perhaps a little higher than the one we
had already observed, began to disclose itself to the north-west, on the
right side of the river. As we advanced I further ascertained that the
first range extended in a general direction from south-west to
north-east. The river had actually eroded its way through this range.
Strong rapids were again met with at that point, the channel being strewn
with innumerable sharp-edged rocks, most unpleasant if you were to come
in contact with them.

A small islet with a picturesque spur of rock on the north side was here
seen; then a larger island, 300 m. long--Evelina Island--also on the left
side. The river flowed for 3,000 m. in a N.N.W. direction, and at the end
of that distance a rectangular island, 200 m. long and 80 m. wide--Eileen
Island--embellished it. Like most of the islands in that particular
portion of the river it had a beautiful spur of rock on its eastern side,
preceded by a little islet also of rock. We passed to the left of this
island. It was separated by a channel 80 m. wide from another narrow
island, 200 m. to the west of it--Diana Island.

Just before getting to a third range extending from south-west to
north-east, and, like the other two, about 300 ft. high, we came upon a
long barrier of rock spreading diagonally for about 1,000 m. from
south-west to north-east. A long narrow island (200 m. long)--Bertha
Island--began from that point close to the right bank, and another had
been separated by the water from the bank itself. A tributary 2 m. wide
was observed on the left side. We kept close to the left bank and passed
on our right an island 300 m. long--Sophia Island.

So numerous were the islands following one another that I was beginning
to have great difficulty in supplying sufficient names for them all.

More rapids were reached, and were of terrific force--especially in the
centre of the river. It took me some little time to find a suitable
passage, but at last I found a channel 25 m. wide through which I got the
canoe among innumerable rocks. We we