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Show 3987 Kane- D 2007 were going to strike. The oarsmen are not supposed to look around; no matter where we were, we were to row, and watch the signals from the steering man, whether to pull hard on one side or the other, or both oars, and pull as hard as we could; when we struck, Mac -- everybody called him Mac, whoever knows him -- Mac and Best jumped up -- before the boat snapped over they jumped up on to this rock, a flat top rock with a little slope to the back, almost as big across as this desk, and Jewell and I rowing were washed out of the boat, and went on down through the rapids. We had cork jackets, is all that saved us; Mr. Jewell got into an eddy should three hundred yards or such a matter below the rock, and was carried ashore. There was eddies on both sides. In swift waters, if a man can get out of that swift current and into an eddy, he would sooner or later be carried Ashore. We had eddies in the Grand Canyon that would drown a man if he got in them, they would keep him down, even with a cork jacket. I went on about over a mile before I landed; I was practically drowned; the current carried me ashore. In any one of those eddies that carried me ashore among the rocks I was so far gone I couldn't bold on to a rock; my hands were |