Identifier: swordpenorventura00owen (find matches)
Title: Sword and pen : or, Ventures and adventures of Willard Glazier in war and literature
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Owens, John Algernon
Subjects: Glazier, Willard, 1841-1905 Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives
Publisher: Philadelphia : P.W. Ziegler and Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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etweenrich meadows, and promises easy and safe navigation,so that our little band of explorers after leaving Itascaexpected to have a quiet and uneventful voyage untilthey reached the inhabited part of the country. Suchwas not the case, however, for they soon found their pro-gress very much impeded by drift-wood, snags, rapids,and boulders of every size and description. They over-came these obstacles in various ways, all requiringmuch exertion and endurance, and many a time theirpatience was nearly exhausted. Sometimes they forcedthe canoes under the logs which lay across the stream,and again cut a passage-way through them. Now theyremoved the drift from their path and now wereobliged to lift the canoes over it. A little further ona huge boulder would confront them, making it neces-sary to disembark and carry the boats around. Pres-ently a dangerous rapid would be met, and in shootingit some member of the party would be precipitatedinto the water, or perhaps a hole stove in one of the
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DOWN THE GREAT RIVER. 479 canoes. At last they were obliged to make a portageof about half a mile, and upon launching again, soondiscovered that the principal obstructions had beenovercome. This was a great relief to them, for the in-tolerable annoyance of swarms of mosquitoes whichcame in clouds about them, biting even through theirclothing, was quite enough to bear patiently withouthaving the hardships consequent upon such ruggedvoyaging to endure. Laborious, however, as they found this unusuallyrough canoeing, and troublesome as were the mosqui-toes, both trials sank into insignificance when com-pared with their ever present danger of starvation.It will be remembered how bravely all had decided,when they first made the startling discovery that theirsupplies were at a low ebb, to pursue their investigationseven at the risk of running completely out of rations.The strictest economy had been observed ever since,but despite all their care- they now found that unlessthey could reach a t

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