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The ascent of the broad Tana in that big old black boat was slow, tedious, and terribly monotonous.
For the most part the river, famous for its salmon and the particles of gold the water contains, flowed across a great, open, treeless tundra, and often the current was so strong that the three rowers required the assistance of Henkela, himself a fisherman, to keep her head to the stream.