Sentence:  The river of Cabool was crossed on a raft supported on inflated skins ... Its rapidity, formed into eddies, <WSD>wheeled</WSD> them <WSD>round</WSD>, and they had the agreeable satisfaction of being told that, if carried some way down, there was a whirlpool round which, if once enclosed in its circle, they might revolve, in hunger and giddiness, for a whole day. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To cause to change direction quickly, turn.