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Show 966 and a good many riffles were encountered where the boats were grounded by scraping over them. In that stretch of the river he did not see any other people in boats nor did he see any people in cabins around the river who were not in boats. The expedition got through Cataract Canyon with a great deal of difficulty, the water being shallow and the boats grounding continually. R. 2300. " Q Do you know where the junction of the two rivers was? " A Yes sir. " Q Describe your trip from below the junction. " A The first part below the junction is very shallow water; we hit on sandbars; and below that the sand seems to give way to small pebbles, that is, the stream is low, and you grate along on sort of riffles in the stream; it is not sand, but the surface is very close to the water, and we grated along there. " Down further, we came into small - couldn't exactly be called rapids, but between a rapid and a riffle; the rocks are protruding all along the surface of the stream; we had quite a bit of difficulty getting through there. " It was necessary to stop our boats and get out and pick a course in order to get through at all." R. 2301. The first large rapids were encountered just below the junction of the Colorado and Green Rivers. In Cataract Canyon it was tough going for the boats, the rocks were very large and numerous and the water so shallow that he was in doubt several times as to whether the boats could be taken through without portaging them around the rapids. Some of the rapids were portaged. None of the boats were lost but several of |
