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Show 853 always under the bank that helps you land; then this short rope, the bow oarsman, which was me in Mr. Stanton's boat, would pick up the short landing line and jump ashore and hold it; sometimes have to take sort of a turn around a rock, or get in between the rocks and brace myself and hang on. " This long line, when we struck this rock at rapid 13, had come loose; it was coiled up on the bow of the boat, and tied with a string, lightly so if we needed we could pull it off quick, but tight enough to keep it there, so the rough water washing over would not wash it away. [ R. 2008] " When the boat turned over that rose was carried down past the rock - the rock was almost in the middle of the river. When Bent and McDonald stayed on the rock, and I had been picked up and core back, we throwed a light line -- tied a twine to a small rock, and one of the men that was a good thrower threw it out across the rock; then we tied another line we had on the other boat, and they pulled it over - McDonald and Best pulled the line over. " We had books, grasele hooks on a short throwing line, thirty- five or forty feet long, that in case a man was id the mater and anybody in a boat or on the shore close by, they could swing that and throw it to them or hook provisions; one boat in the Grand canyon was washed out and i hooked those ones up. " We sent one of those lines over with the other line, and they booked up this rope fast on the end of the boat, and swung it down the river; it wasn't long enough to reach the shore; we had plenty of lines, and had a couple of small |