"We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn´t even feel like talking loud, and it warn´t often that we laughed -only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all -not that night, nor the next, nor the next."