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Show 91"15 ( Tho The ) boat ( had 'had had ) ( considerable coilsiderable ) rocker , and would turn ( veiy very ) quickly ; in many cases these rocks ( pro- pro ) ject in the only available channel where you know before you get to the rock that the boat has to be turned at an angle , and they would pull over a little to one side and endeavor to pass that rock , . ( and aud ) in order to check the speed they would drop in ( behind-a behinda ) rock sticking above the water gives a little quiet place , even in the ( middle raiddle ) of a ( rapid-- rapid ) they would try to drop into that and get a new grip on the oars and continue on down , and ( some- some ) times would have to change the channel ( four'and fourand ) five ( times tinies ) going through a rapid . Proceeding from the mouth of the San ( Kafael Rafael ) soon get into Labyrinth ( canyon ennyon ) . Had difficulty in that canyon with ( sandbars saildbaTs ) ; ( fre- fre ) quents would ( run ruil ) on to the sandbars ; the ( river river- river ) spreads out , has a ( widening Nddening ) course , changing ( chan- chan ) nel ; it would be ( approximately approxiinately ) four hundred feet wide ; most of the ( time tilue ) it was wider than that , on . account of ( spreading spreadilig ) out ; it ( had bad ) ( room rooin ) to spread . out ; and sandbars , ( almost alnlost ) islands , would be just up . to the surface of the water ; sometimes could tell where they were ; the wind ( sometimes sonietimes ) makes a ( dif- dif ) ference . ( Sometimes Soinethries ) we ( couldn't couldnt ) tell it ; ( some soine ) ( times tillies ) would hit ( them theiii ) pretty hard . But would endeavor all the time to look over their shoulders and pick out what they thought was the running water , , the . deeper channels , but that changes a great deal from side to side , and especially if the course of the ( river- river river ) is ( changed chancred ) 7 if it is not a straight river . . |