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Show of wavesyou ( struck sixuck ) ; just 45i theway you happened to take a rapid . They filled with water along Red Canyon in Cataract Canyon , of course , all through there you were liable to get full of water ( whenever Nhenever ) you ( ran raii ) a rapid . Nowhere else except at the rapid in Glen Canyon , where may ( have lia-ve liave ) shipped a little . ( R . 1589 . ) He has no recollection of ever encountering any sand waves . The boats were very sturdy in their construction and they ( wouldn't wouldnt ) have minded sand waves , because they could stand almost anything . There were three men in each boat , except one , which carried four , and he believes there were 1,000 to 1,200 pounds in each boat . On his first trip down the river they left a boat at the mouth of the Dirty Devil , ( until untid ) the following year , because they were short of rations , and they ( couldn't couldnt ) stop long enough to make the ( investiga investiga- investiga ) ¬ tions and photographs they intended to make . They left no one with the boat , simply hauled it up fifty feet above the river and filled it with sand . From this point on down to Lees Ferry , the two remaining boats were more heavily loaded , as supplies and ( men nien ) were all carried down on them . ( R . 1591 . ) When they returned the following year they found the boat all right except thewater had been up and washed the sand away from under the keel . The boat was probably left not more than twenty feet above the ( ordinary ordiiiary ) stage of water . |