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Show 3702 Clark- D 1724 help the boat through this place. I would say it took us about two hours to make about one hundred and fifty feet through there. BY MR. FARNSWORTH: Q How many feet? A About one hundred and fifty feet. Then after leaving there we had difficulties running on sandbars: going up stream like that, with not much force, we didn't have a great deal of trouble getting off them, because we wouldn't hit them hard enough, and the current would be against us, so lots of times it would just wash us back down again, but it took us, going this distance, it took us about two days and a half to make it, going up. And there was places there, -- I guess some places there, -- where we would be an hour making a mile, and other places where we could take advantage of the eddies, and we would make pretty good time. Q what do you mean by " taking advantage of the eddies"? A Lots of places, you know, there is an eddy that the current goes up stream, follows along the bank, and it is deep enough water so you can get in that; take advantage of the current to help you up stream As a general rule, in getting into these eddies, you have difficulties getting out of them, because you are liable to get caught in a pocket, that is, a sandbar, run |
