Choaked up with Snagsour boat run on two in turning to pass through, we got through with Safty the wind from N W.
Camped above, below a great number of Snags quit across the river, The Musquitors more numerous than I ever Saw them, all in Spirrits, we had Some rough Convasation G.
Country narrow and more moveing Sands and a much greater quantity of Sawyers or Snags than above.
Crooked and the Current more rapid and Crouded with Snags or Sawyers than it is above, and continus So all day.
La Craw, we made Some fiew enquiries of this man and again proceeded on through a very bad part of the river Crouded withSnags & Sawyers and incamped on a Sand bar about 4 miles above the Grand Nemahar.
Snags which was quit across the Rivr the Channel Confined within 200 yards one Side a Sand pt.
Deed Snags across, passed the Lower point of a Island called Isle Chauvin Situated on the L.
It's just full of sunken snags for half a mile up the river above the island.
Snags and sunken trees in the way of intrepid voyagers were evidently facts which one had to guard against.
Between the rapids of Arara and the falls of Madeira was a beautiful sheet of water, and, being afraid of snags or submerged rocks, the canoes were kept well out into the stream.
Accidents, however, were by no means rare, for there were snags and sunken rocks to be guarded against, and more than one of the small canoes were stove and sunk, with the loss of precious lives.
But if you ever go into the patent office at Washington, ask to see Abraham Lincoln's patent for transporting river boats over snags and shoals.
What with rapids at one time and snags at another, their lives on several occasions were in real jeopardy.
The river was at low stage and the Explorer butted into snags and muddy banks continually.
The journey upstream was at a low stage of water and there was continual trouble withsnags and sandy bars.
The navigation was very bad, the river crooked and narrow, the water low and beginning to fall, the bottom full of snags and stumps, and the sides bristling with cypress logs and sharp, hard timbers.
He knew every one of the thousand nooks, turns, snags and sand-bars of the Lualaba.
With a skill born of long acquaintance with the river, Crazy John guided the boat between snags and always found safe water.
The water of the bayou into which he turned was quiet, but there was the hidden menace of snags and Tim was compelled to move forward slowly.
The Cedar was wide enough but the danger of snags was a very real one.
Black snags stuck their dangerous heads above the surface of the water and occasionally a broad sand bar ran almost across the stream.
The old negro grinned widely at the compliment, showing two or three yellowed snags planted in shrunken bluish gums.
Out from shore a piece, in the current, floating snags were going down, thick as harrow teeth, all pointing the same way like big black fish going to spawn.
Canoes and small surf-boats may run down it at certain seasons, but the flow is too fast and the bed is too full of snags and sawyers to be easily ascended.
Nothing would be easier than to clear away these obstacles; a few pounds of gun-cotton would remove snags and sawyers, and dredging by boats would do the rest.
The snags were even thicker than on the upper Ancobra, and were far more dangerous than on the St. John's.
Hugh was very careful how he steered his boat, for there were snags to be met with, and should they strike one while going at such speed, it might prove the finish of the Idler, as the boat was named.
They dragged the canoe into the stream and found water deep enough to float it, but branches and vines obstructed them above, while logs and snags troubled them below.
The apparatus for eradicating the snags is comprised in a simple wheel and axle, auxiliary to a pair of powerful steam-engines, with the requisite machinery for locomotion, and a massive beam uniting the bows of the hulls, sheathed with iron.
Some of the snags torn up from the bed of the stream, where they have probably for ages been buried, are said to have exceeded a diameter of six feet at the root, and were upward of an hundred feet in length.
As early as 1821, Shreve had invented a device for removing snags and sawyers from river beds.
Snags also abound all along the wooded shores, and the water is so shallow that some beds of bulrushes rise above the surface a mile or more from land.
Even the Indians habitually sneak to the shore through the snags and rushes; for the water is very shallow, easily churned up to quite a sea.
As we proceed, other obstacles offer; snags abound, the Mississippi becomes in places too shallow to float a canoe, and in others bushes begin to meet across the channel, or fallen logs require to be chopped out of the way.
From this place upward to Lake Itasca the Mississippi is practically unnavigable, at least in such a low stage of water as that I found--not so much on account of the extensive rapids as from snags and brush.
There are stretches of unbroken woodland around it and slashes where the cypress knees rise countlessly like headstones and footstones for the dead snags that rot in the soft ooze.
What was worse, an overhanging tree with dead snags left scarce room to pass beneath.
Ken ducked to prevent being swept overboard, and one of the snags that brushed and scraped him ran under his belt and lifted him into the air.
Snags loomed up specter-like in his path, seemingly to reach for him with long, gaunt arms.
In breaking out a fresh trail avoid snagswhich show through the snow or little protuberances which indicate snags beneath the surface; also beware of places where the snow appears to be held up by brush or sticks beneath.
This material wears much better than would be expected, providing the snow is deep and the snags well covered, as they are up there in winter.
Presently they were able to make her out, although almost dazzled by the brilliant light up in her bow, rendered necessary by the snags and rocks scattered at intervals all along the Yamasaw.
The height of the water made the going easy, for most of the snags and fallen trees were well beneath the surface.
Two or three times cormorants and snake-birds, perched on snags in the river or on trees alongside it, permitted the boat to come within a few yards.
In a head in the British Museum the left horn has thirteen of these little snags and the right fourteen.
Then it occurred to me that I might better face an imaginary foe than the whirlpools and sunken snags of the Pahang.
We pushed on until the dim twilight faded out, and only a phosphorescent glow on the water remained to reveal the snags that marked our course.
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