. The conquest of the Missouri; being the story of the life and exploits of Captain Grant Marsh. owly forward. Now and then she reached a bitof smoother water where she could steam for a few hun-dred yards. Then another rapid would be met with andthe whole process repeated. At times the river was foundso swift and shallow that a party was put off on eachshore with a rope and both capstans worked, the boatthus being pulled along in mid-stream. This methodhad never before been employed, for the breadth of mostnavigable streams would render it impracticable. Through all that long, hot Sunday afte
. The conquest of the Missouri; being the story of the life and exploits of Captain Grant Marsh. owly forward. Now and then she reached a bitof smoother water where she could steam for a few hun-dred yards. Then another rapid would be met with andthe whole process repeated. At times the river was foundso swift and shallow that a party was put off on eachshore with a rope and both capstans worked, the boatthus being pulled along in mid-stream. This methodhad never before been employed, for the breadth of mostnavigable streams would render it impracticable. Through all that long, hot Sunday afternoon of June25th the soldiers and the crew, sweating and weary, coaxedand hauled their cumbersome charge up the mountainstream, past dark, overhanging cliffs and through rangesof broken and naked bad lands. Throughout the dayheavy columns of smoke were visible rolling up alongthe distant southern horizon. Every one knew that theyprobably betokened the presence of the Sioux of the terrible scenes being enacted beneath theshadow of those smoke clouds during the early hours of 270. 2 3 £
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