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Show 319 By The Special Masters: " Q. Did you follow that same method on the first trip? " A. Yes, we did that in many cases; we would take two- thirds of the stuff out of the boats and carry it around to make the boats easier to handle, and to make them so we would have the stuff saved in case we lost the boats; that was always in our minds in these rapids." R. 831 Only one of the rapids in cataract canyon was lined although it is witness's opinion that good judgment would be used in lining all. " There is a rapid at Dark Canyon similar to one or two others above, but it is a very bad rapid, and we had run that rapid on our former trip; it didn't look any worse than lots of the other rapids, that we had gone over with our boats." R. 832 ( Note: Discussion by counsel. - R. 832) " There was one of these islands I speak of that projected above the water, or sand and rocks, not gravel, but rocks, projecting above. On the south side, pretty close to the south side, it was in sort of a shoestring shape, that is, a very long, narrow piece of high land in the middle of the river, or above the water, and it wasn't continuous; sometimes there would be a little water connecting parts of it. The rapid is in the |
