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[Chabez]

Ar as they could. Then they dashed boldly out into the stream, and the
current whirled them down with lightning speed, but suddenly the canoe
came to a halt in the very middle of the stream! Every rock in a rapid
has a long tail of still water below it; the canoe had got into one of
these tails or eddies, and there it rested securely. A few yards higher
up there was another rock, nearer to the opposite bank, and the eddy
which tailed off from it came down a little lower than the rock behind
which the canoe now lay. There was a furious gush of water between them
and this eddy, but the men knew what the canoe could bear, and their
nerves were strong and steady. Across they went like a shot. They were
swept down to the extreme point of the eddy, but a few powerful strokes
of the paddle sent them into it, and next moment they were floating
behind the second rock, a few yards higher up the stream. Thus they
darted from rock to rock, gaining a few yards at each dart, until at
last they swept into the smo