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Check to our Progress 103jim Koe dislodging canoefi rom a "5 wee P er. "R a tRiver.juJy1926. ClaraColtman Rogers (~ryan).Collection of Edward;;jallry . .During the afternoon we came to a new form of obstacle in the form of deepswift water below overhanging banks which were a tangle of fallen boughs and treetrunks, half in the water and half on the bank. The men could neither push norpaddle the canoe up any such reach of water. nor could they take to tracking thecanoe until a pathway was cleared along the bank. They adopted a new form ofprogress. They would clear a track. with their axes. on the very edge of the bank.Then Lazarus would sit in the canoe. steering it outward from the snags at thewater's edge which were too firmly wedged in the river bed to be destroyed.