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Show 851 stop and go ahead and pick out a channel, until we ran into this rock in rapid 13. " Q. what occurred there? " A. Well, the boat struck the rock, and it was partly turned to miss the rock - we were pulling as hard as we could to get past this rock - but the current carried that boat sideways into the rock. " When any boat struck in the fast water, it will turn up- side- down, turn up flat- ways. [ R. 2006] " Our boat struck about the middle of the boat on the end of this rock; the rock had a little point something like that ( indicating): we were unfortunate for the middle of the boat, the keel of the boat, when it struck, to strike on that point; it was almost a balance; the minute the boat stopped, this swift water washed us over, McDonald steering, Best riding in front could sea the rook, could see in time what we 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 wide 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 beck, almost as big across as |