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Show 850 work, " shoving the boats off sandbars and shoving them back, and putting them into other channels; the channels, many of them, some places they were scattered out; there were a good many channels; we would have to pick them. We didn't generally pick them until we stuck on the bars; then we would look for deeper water. " R. 2003. The only man who had been through the Green River previous to this to this was Mr. McDonald, who was with the Brown- Stanton party. The riffles between Greenriver, Utah, and the mouth of the San Rafael didn't give them much difficulty; they were pretty swift, and one four or five miles below the Green River bridge was quite swift, and zig- zaged. Be touched bottom on that, and another one, between there and the San Rafael; they had a strong swift current, that carried them along, bumping and grinding. R. 2004 On this expedition both boats landed on the sand bars a number of times every day, and he doesn't remember one day when he didn't run on a sand bar. It was a frequent occurrence. From the mouth of the Green River to the hard of the Catatacts, a distance of about five miles, it was swift water, but deep enough for row boats. R. 2005. " Q. Just tell me about the progress of this expedition through Cataract canyon. " A. Well, we ran a number of rapids before we had trouble in No. 13; we had run thirteen rapids and gave us no particular trouble, because we stopped at every rapid, never entered any swift water, at all, of any kind, that we didn't |