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Show 325 were at the end of the rapid; none of them were broken. We advised my brother to line his boat, and that was done; he didn't attempt to run his boat, with three upsets, three boats, we got through. By The Special Master: " Q. What was the character of the shore around those rapids? " A. Of the right shore? " Q. I mean around this particular rapid. " A. On the right shore the banks came very close to the rapid, and then there was a steep talus slope of rock that came right down into the water R. 836. On the south shore - on the left shore, there was quite a wide sand bar - gravel bar and rocks mixed in with it. It was muddy from high water, silt in it, that a person steers into very easily; it is nasty stuff to get through; you sink in it to your ankles, on account of its being wet, mixture of quicksand, silt, mud, sand and rocks." R. 832- 837 In lining a boat through the rapids the boat is maneuvered by means of ropes tied to the bow and stern while the boatmen are on the bank. A portage is made by actually dragging the boat out of the water and carrying or transferring it along the pole past the rapids. The boats used by him on this expedition were too heavy to carry so that logs were used as rollers and the boats rolled past the rapids where portage was made. |
