Immediately the two adventurous cruisers were in
the rapids, and shooting down with incredible swiftness.
The leading boat managed to pull through all right, for Reddy knew the
route; but disaster awaited that containing the two chums. Whether they
struck a half-submerged rock, and were capsized, or made a
miscalculation, and found themselves seized by the cross-current, no one
ever knew.
"Look out!" shouted Jerry, and the next instant both he and Frank were
overboard, and trying to keep away from the threatening snags while they
went whirling down the rapids.
CHAPTER XVI
THE NEW CAMP
"Well, how did you like it, Jerry?"
"Talk to me about your shooting the whirlpool at Niagara in a barrel!
That was bad enough for me! I swallowed enough water to float a ship!
And here we are yet, each perched on a measly old slippery rock, in the
middle of the rapids. Say! tell me about that, will you, Frank? How are
we going to get ashore?"
The situation was comical as well as tragical. Just as Jerry said, each
of the late inmates of the overturned bullboat, after being buffeted
about furiously for several minutes, had succeeded in wildly scrambling
on to an exposed rock.
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