Rain all last night & untill 12 Oe noon 11 Oc we left Helena Arkansas & went down to where our boys cut the levvee & passed through into Moon Lake, & at 10 Oc PM we entered the pass & the afternoon we put in winding our way down the crooked little branch, through the heavy timber. I believe we only saw one small plantation since we entered the pass it is on the right as we came down there is no sine of enterprise about it. I believe the cut off or pass runs to every point of the compass, & as our fleet moved along often several tuching each other at the bow & stearn, but no place since we entered has it been wide enough to pass or get along side & no place wide enough for a boat to swing around, & often the boat is being rubed by the brush & timber on both sides, & braking limbs & trees, & also guards & wheels of the boats but men ware on hand with poles all the time to bare off against trees & swing the boats, the ground on both sides is from 6 inches to 3 feet above the watter, some under.
SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 112
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