. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. - were still coming in; and. JUST TUB THING. ADIKl IO CINllJZATION. I^ all was liLirry-scurry with excitement. The only trans-portation available for crossing the Missouri Riverw^as a big- clumsy scow or tiat-hoat proixllcd In* longoars or sweeps. We chartered this craft for one night,several parties clubbing w^ith us for the purpose. Theprice stipulated was ninety dollars, we to perform thelabor. The task was b}- no means a holida} diver-sion. I tugged at the end of one of those sweeps m}^-self all night, and i
. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. - were still coming in; and. JUST TUB THING. ADIKl IO CINllJZATION. I^ all was liLirry-scurry with excitement. The only trans-portation available for crossing the Missouri Riverw^as a big- clumsy scow or tiat-hoat proixllcd In* longoars or sweeps. We chartered this craft for one night,several parties clubbing w^ith us for the purpose. Theprice stipulated was ninety dollars, we to perform thelabor. The task was b}- no means a holida} diver-sion. I tugged at the end of one of those sweeps m}^-self all night, and it seemed a long, long night, Big Mudd} was booming from the spring fresh-ets, and at this point hurled its entire volume sheeragainst a precipitous bluff just above the ferrying-place, thus lashing its waters, ordinarily very violent,into redoubled fur). But w^e were equal to the emer-gency, and succeeded in placing the turbulent floodbehind not only ourselves, but also enough others ful-1} to idemnif} us for our outlay. ^ On May i6, we pulled out from the Missouri Riverthrough the muddy timbere
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