. Capt. J. D. Winchester's experience on a voyage from Lynn, Massachusetts, to San Francisco, Cal., and to the Alaskan gold fields .... UP THE YUKON. 173 and rowed up to the rapids. We found we rowed bot-tom, and sometimes the hummock was there. I told themto try poling her, which they did, and gained a little, buta whirl in the tide caught one side of our bow, she spunaround so quick that she threw them down on one side,and the boiling current keeled her over gunwale to, andaway we went down stream. I held my breath, until shepassed over the hummocks, for I knew the real danger,while the boys
. Capt. J. D. Winchester's experience on a voyage from Lynn, Massachusetts, to San Francisco, Cal., and to the Alaskan gold fields .... UP THE YUKON. 173 and rowed up to the rapids. We found we rowed bot-tom, and sometimes the hummock was there. I told themto try poling her, which they did, and gained a little, buta whirl in the tide caught one side of our bow, she spunaround so quick that she threw them down on one side,and the boiling current keeled her over gunwale to, andaway we went down stream. I held my breath, until shepassed over the hummocks, for I knew the real danger,while the boys were afraid of a little water that splashedover her side. They took their oars to row, and I steered for the otherside, trying to land above the Luella, but this was a nar-row reach, and the tide was rushing through with greatforce, so we landed below the steamer. These were the first rapids we had met and we wereconquered. We had a hard looking show, but must passup this reach somehow. The Luella had quite a numberof boats that she was towing up and a few passengers, in-cluding one woman—I think the captains wife. We wenton b
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