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Show and four feet wide , and 1329 they put the boat ( in ill ) the river and went to the mouth of Nigger Bill Canyon . At this point they transferred the cargo from the raft into the boat , and took the boat back up the river . With the exception of the two rapids , one just below Castle Creek , and another at the ( mouth inouth ) of Salt Wash , they rowed the boat with one set of oars ( in ill ) the quiet water , as far as they could on to ( the the' the ) rapids , and then used a fif teen or twenty foot tow line and a pike pole , and one of them would pull the boat along the shore through the rapids , and the other held the boat with the pike pole to keep it from interfering with the shore . He does not know what distance they towed the boat , but the rapids were not very long . He believes it was ( not -not not ) more than three or four hundred feet altogether , and the balance of the distance he rowed . He did not have any trouble with the raft , as he discovered after it was launched at the mouth of Cisco Wash ( in iii ) passing the first rapids , that there was always a current of water ( in ill ) the center where the main river was running down , that was always . able to carry the raft , and when they came to a rapids , would ( run ruli ) through the current and never experience any trouble in going down with the raft . ( R . 5196-5197 . ) In coming back with the boat they had to keep close to the shore ( when wheii ) they ( dame eame ) to the rapids , but they were not so bad but that one of ( them thein ) could not pull the boat up while the other would hold it with the pike pole . He did |