They are the most dangerous rapids on the river, and are never run through in boats except by accident.

It is thirty to forty yards wide at the mouth, very shallow, and for half a mile up is one continuous rapid.

Just above this point we pass the swiftest rapids on the route, where the river widens, and each side of the bank is beautiful in its wooded picturesqueness, while the waters rush, in foaming, surging, tumbling confusion, over the rugged rocks, or dart between them like a merry band of water-sprites chasing each other in gleesome frolic.

The tide flows about five miles up the river, when it is obstructed by some slight rapids; although it seems shallow, and full of rocks and islands, I think it is navigable for small boats.

Suddenly, as if aware of impending danger, it becomes lashed into foam, circled with eddies, and soon leaps into fearful rapids.

On we were taken along mountain trails over high snow-filled passes and across rivers on bamboo bridges to Wassoo, a timber centre from which great rafts of lumber are shot down the river, over fearsome rapids, freighted with Chinamen.

But the faithful creature, who had risked life to retrieve sticks thrown into fierce rapids, ran steadily on.

Just as he was sliding away down-stream, we discovered that he had left us upon an island in the midst of frantic, impassable rapids.

They go by canoes where the river is navigable, and are carried on the backs of men around the frequent and sometimes long rapids.

The country itself presented a thousand obstacles: there was danger from flood, danger from wild beasts, danger from the roving savage, danger from false friends, danger from the furious rapids on rivers, danger of loss of sight, of health, of use of motion and of limbs, in the new, strange life of an Indian wigwam.... Once established in a tribe, the difficulties were increased.

Then swirling and curving drowsily through meadow and grove, it breaks forth anew into gray rapids and falls, leaping and gliding in glorious exuberance of wild bound and dance down into another and yet another filled-up lake basin.

On one swift bend, around which poured a healthy young rapid, they lost two hours, making a score of attempts and capsizing twice.

Just as he was sliding away down-stream, we discovered that he had left us upon an island in the midst of frantic, impassable rapids.

Our progress had been very slow; and until we got out of the region of incessant rapids, with their attendant labor and hazard, it was not likely that we should go much faster.

Both he and Evans have taken fine views of the rapids, instantaneous, catching the spray as it leaped and the clouds overhead.

We ran two or three light rapids, and portaged the loads by another.

Here we leave the steamer and take a narrow-gauge railway for six miles around the magnificent rapids.

As Oriana and Mailah approached the verge of the scattered forest, and stood to gaze on the magnificent scene before them, they perceived the canoe descend a narrow rapid, and then take up a position below an elevated mass of rock, where the water was perfectly still, and where the fishermen could quietly pursue their occupation.

She planned all other details of the venture; the shortest route to the nearest rapids of the river where she might dispose of the deadly cylinders of brass.

Adelaide took Estelle's store until Estelle came back to it, her surface calm like the smooth river that hides in its tortured bosom the deep-plunged rapids below the falls.

The sources of these rivers are valuable only for their pineries, and their valleys only become fertile below their falls and principal rapids.

The river is broad and rapid, 2000 m. long, more than half of it navigable from the sea; at the confluence of the Yguassu it enters a narrow gorge, and for 100 m. forms one of the most remarkable rapids in the world; the chief towns on its banks are in the Argentine, viz.

It had stolen up shallow rapids, slipping between the watchers' legs, dived under swimming dogs, made bold dashes along the bank, and hidden in belts of reeds.

Next day, the 3rd of April, we began the descent of these sinister rapids of the chasm.

We ran some rather stiff rapids, the Infernino, without unloading, in the morning.