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Show 852 this desk, and Jewell and I rowing were washed out of the boat, and went on down through the rapids. " He had cork jackets, is all that saved us; Mr. Jewell got into an eddy about 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 then, they would keep him down, even with cork jacket. [ R. 2007] " 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 some I couldn't hold on to a rock; my hands were numb and would slip off; I couldn't see, but I knew I was among rocks in quiet water; I rested there a while on shore, and went back up, after I had rested & while, up to camp. " Q. What became of that boat? " A. That boat stayed there for twelve days; we tried to pull it off. On each boat we had a long tow line used for landing, and then a short line, about twenty- five or thirty feet long, to land the boat - to tie it up. " In that fast water in those canyons you have to make what we called a flying landing; be traveling ten or fifteen -- in Grand canyon many times twenty miles an hour; had to land among the rocks; the steersman would point his boat towards the shore downstream, and would get close; little eddies |