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Middle of the river as it drifted, with an oar, the others rolled up
their sleeves, and with the knowledge gained from their aeroplane
motors, aided the steersman to disconnect and clean the machinery.
Meantime the engineer arrayed himself in dry clothing. "Well, well,"
said he, as he came out of the cabin, "I didn't know we had a group of
experts aboard. I supposed the aviator that went up yesterday knew all
about it, but this help will save us about an hour's time, and we
haven't been getting any too much speed out of her to-day." The engine
behaved excellently for the rest of the day, and about five o'clock in
the afternoon they landed at the town of Circle. They found it a village
of a couple of hundred, the supply point for the Birch Creek mining
region. At an early hour the next morning they were again on the bosom
of the river, the engine having again been cleaned and "nursed" as the
engineer described it for the day. The river had begun to widen and the
bank to fall to almost a dead level just before reaching Circle the
night before, and they now entered upon a dreary expanse of tundra or
flat marsh land covered with a meager growth of wi