ful time.

"One or two canoes ran through with breeds. Pretty exciting.
They say few of these breeds can swim, but they don't seem
to mind that. Saw several wrecks of scows along the shores
here, and one boat upset in the middle of the rapids. Some
machinery on shore below rapids, very rusty. Begin to
understand why freight comes high. Sometimes half a cargo is
wasted or lost. No farms, no horses, no cows. A good game
country. They say the game and fish keep the white men
alive. The little boy Charl' keeps with the good Sisters. He
was scared going through the rapids, and so were they.

"On the Long Rapids, as we passed through, we saw the fresh
grave of one of the men who was drowned here the other day.
Only one body was found. Their canoe was all broken up.

"On the Crooked Rapids we saw where the men have to track
the boats going up-stream. Don't see how they keep from
falling off the bank. Below the Crooked come the Stony
Rapids, and what the boatmen call the Dive, a sudden dip
down of three or four feet. Sometimes boats ship seas.
Scenery this evening bold and interesting. Some cliffs. Fast
water all day. Camp at 8 o'clock on a good high bluff.
Mosquitoes not quite so bad. Nights cool. This ended the
most glorious day I ever spent out of doors, I believe.

"_Saturday, June 7th._--Beautiful weather. Passed cliffs
where they say there is oil. I don't know. We heard heavy
rapids below, and at 7 A.M. got into them. They call this
the Little Cascade. A ledge runs across the river. At 9
o'clock we came to one of the big jumps on the river known
as the Grand Cascade. About the worst man-trap there is in
low water, they say. We concluded to run her. Our boat goes
first. Some boats tie back to wait for our pilots. There are
three good pilots to eight boats. Many pictures of boats
running the Cascade, which drops eight or ten feet like a
mill-dam. Wonderful what these men can do with the boat.

"Now three or four small rapids which I don't mind, then at
11.45 we struck Mountain Rapids, which made little Charl'
'get some scares,' as Francois says. Sometimes we eat on the
boat. I asked Father Le Fevre if he had prayed for high
water, and he said yes. Then I asked him what he did if high
water didn't come. He said, 'My son, altho