Karamaneh and without further ceremony, she opened the

On the morning of March 28 the savages were still in my front, and

after giving them some solid shot from Captain Dall's gun we slipped

down to the river-bank, and the detachment crossed by means of the

Hudson's Bay boat, making a landing on the opposite shore at a point

where the south channel of the river, after flowing around Bradford's

Island, joins the main stream. It was then about 9 o'clock, and

everything had thus far proceeded favorably, but examination of the

channel showed that it would be impossible to get the boat up the