With pale faces the little party waited.
Fifteen minutes later they saw that their journey upon the raft of logs was about ended.
About two hundred yards ahead of them the stream was so narrow that the raft would not be able to get through in its present shape.
"Mount your horses and make for the stern!" exclaimed Van. "We must take to the water now, and we will stand more show with the animals than without them."
[CHAPTER XI.]
THE DWARFS.
As Van Vincent spoke he seized the bridle rein of his horse and started for the rear end of the raft.
His companions quickly followed his example, and in an exceedingly short space of time all had sprung upon the backs of their horses.