The Arizona sentinel., 1888-10-13

 1 ways" from the river to the slough
 for the purpose of hauling out the old
 steamer Colorado for repairs. At this
 point is the commencement of tide
 water, that is, the point to which the
 water of the river is backed up by the
 flow of the tide from the Gulf.
 Passing the "gridiron" our boats
 rapidly neared the mouth of the river,
 the changes in the face of the country
 plainly indicating that we were near
 ing salt water, the low lands every
 where showing traces of having been
 recently swept by the tides, which rise
 here during "spring" tides to a great
 height. We were, at nightfall of the
 23d, but a short distance above liar
 dy's Colorado, and in the reglou of the
 much dreaded ''Bore," which at high
 tide comes up into the river with an
 irresistible force. There is a sort of
 earnest perseverance and energy about
 this bore which makes it worse to get
 along with than even that other bore
 who insists upon taking a ''straw
 vote" on the train and then falsiIi S
 the returns (when he makea the count
 away back by the water cooler) and
 announces the result, "l6 for Cleve-
 land and ? for Harrison" Many of
 our older citizens, who in times past followed the river, can relate thrilling
 tales of narrow escapes from drown ing and the destruction of their crafts in encounters with the bore at the mouth of the Colorado river. How ever our visit Tad been so timed that we had the 'neap" or lowest tides, and experienced no trouble, although the Captain "kept his eye on the gun" all the time. We lashed our boats to- gether and foated along in the dark ness until we reached the mouth of Hardy's Colorado, where we anchored until daylight.
 Starting about ) a. m. of the 24th, we rowed out of the mouth of the river, where we hoisted our sail and followed down along the eastward shore of the west passage, past Arno island, and struck across toward the head of Montague Island, passing to westward of the latter and continuing our way down the western or Lower California shore of the Gulf In the shoal water on the flats over which we passed were to be seen numbers of Jewish, turtle and 'stingarees," all ndustriously engaged in an honest sffort to exterminate the mullet and other small fish with which these Wa ters abound Scattered here and there at very short distances apart, could be seen the very suggestive dor sal fins of innurnerable sharks. The Tread "man-eater" in all his fierce Deauty;a beauty, however, to which distance lends enchantment. One enormous fellow, nearly or quite twen- y feet in length, swan beside us for l little way and evidently set us down .or sour grapes, for he swan over to he other side of our boat and attacked ! stingaree, who was attending to his ,wn affairs with no idea of having trouble with his neighbors. As we were sailing along at a lively rate and he water was not of the smoothest, ] We could not see the outcome of the 'ow, but I've no doubt the shark the stingaree and then the tingaree swallowed the shark, and so ,n, od f'eena.
 At 5:3O p. m. we ran our boat in lpon the banks as far as we could go md anchored to await the rise of the , idc. We were nearly or quite mile rom the shore, with a black mud lam-fat extending from the barely iscernible line of shell beach to the 'oats, and on past them in a seem ngly endless line out towards the open Cd. Over the side went our Indians, he smiling "Chango" and the equally milling ''Slapjacks," with the coffee ot and frying pan, and the earthly emains of what had been few short ours before stately Egyptian ibis hey waded through the mud to the | hore, and soon after we caught the aspiring gleams of bright fire upon he beach, and we lay down to sleep he sleep of the just and the hungry ntil they should return, which they i'd about 10 p. m., bringing with hem the coffee pot, frying pan and lch portions of the 'remains' as they q ad been unable to eat during the Ooking process. We were Tn no hu- Tor to find fault with either the ,e'aw or the cooks, and we late and ere filled. Powell, however, with 5roke of luck which, if he could hold , would enable him to break the louisiana Lottery, struck the only = tid-bit" in the pan-just ask him ! bout it.
 The tide foated us off at l o'clock
 m., and we started at once for San elipe slough, about twenty i've miles lrther south, where we arrived with Ut any incident worthy of note at 3 a. m. We reached the entrance of le slough, or bay, at low tide and 'und not less than eight feet of water any point in the channel, and in de the bay, sheltered by the high oints on either side of the entrance nd by the high shell banks in front,
 a beautiful little harbor, capable of fording shelter to over one hundred