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Show Record as on the later trip because of water conditions, but we were on sand bars plenty and would get out and wade or push off with the cars or rock the boats to get off. From the mouth of Green River to the head of the cataracts we experienced no diffi- 1908 culty. We started through Cataract Canyon with eight men and two boats and came out at the other end of it with eight men and one boat. We lost one boat in running No. 13 Rapid, which failed to get into the channel and ran against one of the boulders in the 1909 river while they were trying to pull it to shore. We counted over fifty rapids in Cataract Canyon, and in going through we portaged once and lined our boat at No. 13 Rapid. We ran all the rest of the rapids, portaging the provisions at several places, 1910 and running the rapids with the empty boat. We wore life pre-servers. I think there were two bad rapids in Narrow Canyon, where we had a little trouble, although nothing serious. After we lost one of our boats, we lot the men who had been riding in that boat walk where they could and would ferry them across from one bank to the other at places, until we came to Narrow Canyon, Where we had to go through part way with all eight men in the one boat; that was at the place where we found the inscription on the 1911 rocks, " D. Julian, 3 May 1836". I saw that same inscription at three different places on the Green River and at one place on the Colorado. The inscription was done by some kind of a miner's pick 1912 or sharp instrument and was very noticeable. It could only have been put there by a man on a boat or on a raft because the water ran right under the edge of the cliff on which the inscription was put and at the stage of water we had when we passed there the in-scription could easily be reached from our boat. After we reached Hite we picked up a flat bottom boat there and repaired it and went on with the two boats from there to Lee's Ferry. The Wheeler 1913 brothers brought our supplies to Hite as we had arranged. From Marrow Canyon down to Hite, where we got the other boat, the river conditions were characteristic, swift in places, riffles, and what 249 |
