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Show and reached asinuGh as six 954 or seven feet high . Blake hitthem ( endwise end-Nvise endNvise ) . Finally , the boat hit a steep ( ona one ) and took water in . Hite took a can . and began to bail . Blake says , ( "Hold Hold ) your hat . " He grabbed his hat and began bailing with it . Blake , who saw what was happening after they hit the first ( bar bax ) , said that water ( was iiras ) coming in , and that this was the bar that would give us trouble . After the ( water ivater ) came in , ' they were headed for the left shore , and the water had gotten deeper . Blake took one of the heavy oars , and put it ( down clown ) in the water , and when they were , almost to the left bank Blake said that the water was about waist deep . He jumped out , and then they followed . The water was bailed out and the leak in the boat was fixed . He got as much water as possible out of his clothes . ( ( R IR ) . ( 3747-3748-A 37473748A ) . ) Between ( Moonlight Moonliorlit ) Creek and Piute Rapids the boats ( grounded grouinded ) in numerous places because of ( shal- shal ) low water . Those are the outstanding difficulties they ( en- en ) countered . ( R . 3749 . ) Between Moonlight Creek and Piute Creek the Channel of the river is fairly wide ; the water spreads out in places and is shallow , so that the boat grounds quite frequently during the day . ( R . 3749-3750 . ) It is a braided channel . Q . That section that was just mentioned , between ( Moonlight Ioonlight ) and Piute , would that river as you saw it there be described as having a braided channel ? A . Between Moonlight and Piute the river would be braided in some stretches in low water . ( R . 3750 . ) |