Lost in the Canon

seemed to be sleeping heavily, Sam went out

the entrance to the cave, for the s

rents, and the flood had risen till it

will be into the cave,"

ee stay, mus' allee die if no can

need to ask

nd, had got up, but first he decided to satisf

turning his head, "even as I look a

mole up, wat

n't k

e stop di

ear

o den, no

think eit

s belief strong in his mind, he re-entered the cave and set about gett

have alarmed Sam greatly, but though he could not ignore the danger that threatened

flood, as if fascinated by its power and volu

, when he caught sight of the wat

sked Sam as he turned to Ulna, and tried to

oked up at the sky for

m is not

sts the water wi

at is what we

ill flood

surely

rive u

we don't want

must try

try to leave

can we

g like a sigh, "I cannot now t

," said Ike, very solemnly, "it'd come i

t think and act for his comp

, that grows stronger and stronger in the fa

think," he said, while he turned a

nd that Wah Shin had a good breakfast re

s doing this, he said, as i

file him go out, no can cookee; no got tings c

m smile, "if there is any hope in coo

orld and threatened their lives, all, Maj included, complimented Wa

thinking very hard, and the others did not attempt to disturb hi

ut a way to get acr

ut a way of tryin

ow

a ra

have n

must ma

is the

firewood, and there is plenty whirling down w

can," was t

and secure all the long pieces of timber you can. The water is

an me do?" a

the raft, we'll be swept into the great ca?on of the Color

ho was born out in that land, only faintly comprehen

ague notion of what was meant by

re, aware that the great Colorado of the West was formed by the junction of two important rivers, the Green and the Gra

but the Green and the Grand for many score miles above their junction flowed through immense rocky defiles or ca?ons, and they united i

iable authority had assured him that only two parties had ever attempted to go through t

Colorado at one point, and looked down a sheer perpendicular depth of over seven

eparated them from the opposite bank, and this accomplished in safety, they could make the

made up bundles of blankets, provisions and ammunition that

staying and landing a great deal of drift-wood, just the thing for a

gher, and was now ankle deep on the plateau outside

, and a skill that surprised himsel

y lashed side by side, and over these, like a deck

aw that the food, blankets, arms and ammunition were tied so

panions could swim, though the stoutest swimmer co

as to what he must do under certain circumstances; and Maj seemingl

, at one end of the raft, "we must wait for t