procedure, because, when the inevitable upset came their whole outfit was lost except Hornby’s bed-roll in which was wrapped a few dried fish. His was all the grub they had to carry them nearly 100 miles. Whilst in the whirlpool which upset them, these two men righted their overturned canoe, but the downward drag made all the water run to the low end, which “necessitated upsetting” the canoe again, to give it more buoyancy. Eventually, paddling with their hands, slipping into the water and pushing whenever they dared-they worked the canoe to the edge of the whirlpool and out into the current. But everything was gone –fur, rifles, grub, everything except the aforementioned blankets with their precious parcel of dried fish.
