Thursday Aug. 6. No excitement in the night except that a tree on the bank threatened to cave over off Bran's raft, and an enormous tree fell into the river. Water then morning 7 feet below high + we start about 8 o'clock. Having a few fast spots where we were nearly drenched when trees overhanging the banks all bar gone well (9:30). Healy left at 7:45 & I not more than 10 minutes later. We passed the mouth of the R. Tully at 8:30 a.m. This raft having to carry the radio is the heaviest of danger due to the same time the hardest to handle. We estimate its of logs or weight nearly 2 tons each + our gents look as about 1700 lbs. Soon after leaving (in the rain) & there was the dinghy with a boy waiting in it at the spot where Willis had continued to haul in his raft & spend the night. Later he was sent ahead with the two members of Willis's crew who had been left behind. Apparently nobody was injured where Willis on his raft was so suddenly torn from our midst by the big log; but I hope to fit details tonight. At 11:30 we passed the mouth of Surprise Creek. From about 10 or 11 o'clock on the going has been excellent with few sharp corners + the river broad & deep. I caught up with Willis who reports no harm done by the tree. It had been arranged that everybody should edge over to the right a swing in at the junction between the Sly and Palmer Rivers where a couple added forms but Healy in the lead couldn't "make" it a tried to get into a place on the opposite side. A lot of us could undoubtedly have gone in but everybody followed Healy. The upshot is that rafts are strung all the shore for miles. The heavy rafts are so unwieldy and the solace & stony + so overhung with vegetation that about the only chance to get out of this current is to work into a lock-water. That we did a well as is another with one of the police in charge. Well in spite I had scalded, things are definitely better. The river is now too hot to be dangerous, the weather has improved very much; and we are within a day & a half of the Orville camp where everybody is its forefather.