 This we find on examination; but such a portage would be impracticable for us, and we must run the rapid, or abandon the river. There is no hesitation. We step into our boats, push off, and away we go, first on smooth but swift water, then we strike a...  North America: The United States - Page 80by Samuel Edward Dawson, Henry Gannett - 1898Full view - About this book
 | America - 1875 - 472 pages
...carry our boats around, though we can climb to the summit up a side gulch, and, passing along a mile or two, can descend to the river. This we find on...the little boat is caught in a whirlpool, and spun around several times. At last we pull out again into the stream, and now the other boats have passed... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution, John Wesley Powell, Almon Harris Thompson, Elliott Coues, George Brown Goode - Canyons - 1875 - 470 pages
...cany our boats around, though we can climb to the summit up a side gulch, and, passing along a mile or two, can descend to the river. This we find on...the little boat is caught in a whirlpool, and spun around several times. At last we pull out again into the stream, and now the other boats have passed... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) - 1875 - 466 pages
...river. This we find on examination; but suck a portage would be impracticable for us, and we must inn the rapid, or abandon the river. There is no hesitation....the little boat is caught in a whirlpool, and spun around several times. At last we pull out again into the stream, and now the other boats have passed... | |
 | Science - 1898 - 264 pages
...no hesitation. We step into our boats, push off, and away we go, first on smooth but swift waters, then we strike a glassy wave and ride to its top,...the little boat is caught in a whirlpool and spun around several times. At last we pull out again into the stream, and now the other boats have passed... | |
 | George Iles - America - 1902 - 206 pages
...carry our boats around, though we can climb to the summit up a side gulch, and, passing along a mile or two, can descend to the river. This we find on...the little boat is caught in a whirlpool, and spun around several times. At last we pull out again into the stream, and now the other boats have passed... | |
 | Success - 1902 - 532 pages
...side gulch and passing along a mile or two, can descend to the river. This we find on ex.miination; but such a portage would be impracticable for us,...the little boat is caught in a whirlpool and spun around several times. At last we pull out again into the stream, and now the other boats have passed... | |
 | Grove Karl Gilbert - 1903 - 98 pages
...carry our boats around, though we can climb to the summit up a side gulch, and, passing along a mile or two, can descend to the river. This we find on...the little boat is caught in a whirlpool, and spun around several times. At last we pull out again into the stream, and now the other boats have passed... | |
 | Charles Alexander McMurry - Explorers - 1904 - 276 pages
...carry our boats around, though we can climb to the summit up a side gulch, and, passing along a mile or two, can descend to the river. This we find on...the little boat is caught in a whirlpool, and spun around several times. At last we pull out again into the stream, and now the other boats have passed... | |
 | Charles Alexander McMurry - Explorers - 1904 - 288 pages
...down again into the trough, iip again on a higher wave, and down and up on 146 PIONEERS OF THE WEST waves higher and still higher, until we strike one...the little boat is caught in a whirlpool, and spun around several times. At last we pull out again into the stream, and now the other boats have passed... | |
 | John Wesley Powell - Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) - 1915 - 332 pages
...carry our boats around, though we can climb to the summit up a side gulch, and, passing along a mile or two, can descend to the river. This we find on...the little boat is caught in a whirlpool, and spun around several times. At last we pull out again into the stream, and now the other boats have passed... | |
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