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Show 492 bar. He retraced our steps, and tried to find some way of penetrating the bar in order to reach the deep rocket that extended down stream on the other bank. " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q. What did you do, turn around or reverse your propeller? " A. We turned around, your Honor; and being unable to find a crossing there, we went book up, pretty well up in the deep pocket to the down stream pocket, and manhandled the boat across, two members were out wading, and we spent a long time getting across. [ R. 2141] " I might say, in connection with the navigation, that the boat in which we were traveling had this propeller and skag at the rear end, which projected far below the rest of the boat, and was the first point to ground. When going up stream, if the boat was brought to a stand or slowed down sufficiently to lose its steerage, the grounding was at the stern of the boat, and the current swung the head of the heat around, and two men couldn't hold it in the current we had at that point. " R. 1242. The rudders position is anchored and is the same depth as the skag. " This skag or brace had an extension, including a socket for the rudder post. " R. 1242. " Then we retraced our way to Moab. "[ R. 1242 arriving at Moab on August 28th. R. 1368.] The sediment in the Colorado River, " as I personally observed it, I took a tumbler we had emptied in the course of our consumption of rations, and took samples |
