Notwithstanding, I found myself carried down.  I looked out for Hugh, but the bubbling water blinded my eyes, and I could nowhere see him nor my Indian companions; still I instinctively struggled for life. Suddenly I found myself close to a rugged rock, whose sides afforded the means of holding on to it.  By a violent effort I drew myself out of the water and climbed to the top.  I looked round to see what had become of the rest of the crew; my eye first fell on the canoe, to which Hugh was clinging.  It was being whirled hurriedly down the rapids; and some distance from it, indeed, almost close to where I now was, I saw the head of an Indian.  His hands and feet were moving; but instead of trying to save himself by swimming towards the rock on which I was seated, he was evidently endeavouring to overtake the canoe.  I could nowhere see our other companion; he had, I feared, sunk, sucked under by the current.  A momentary glance showed me what I have described.