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Show 31 -- 28-- Lining of boats is well know to boatmen in river travel. Any man who is experienced in running rapids would understand just how to do it. There were holes made in the boats at what he called Rapids No. 5, the fifth bad rapids encountered. Two of the boats suffered there, at what the called Fourth of July Rapids. At that point " one of our large boats was completely overturned while we were lining up, and in order to save the boat at all we had let it drift down out of this hole, and coming ashore one of the hatches was broken in. That happened at these Fourth of July Rapids. Also the " Coronado," the second large boat, was so badly injured in going through this rapids that we had to stop and patch her. Those were the major accidents to the boats going through the Cataract." R. 81- 82. He observed that the stage of water at which time the trip was made was during high water. He did not observe anything in Cataract Canyon showing that in recent years there had been higher stages of water. The sand piles up high. During the torrential rains that happened to come at the time the Expedition was going through, the water went up the banks for a distance of 30 feet, at approximately the slope illustrated in Complainant's Exhibit No. 40. The height of the rise depends upon the width of the canyon. In some places it would be 10 feet where it was wider, and other places it would be 30 feet where it was narrower. R. 82. The river rose vertical much more than a foot or no. Conservatively speaking, the river at the point where they were rose between 25 and 30 feet. He pulled his boat |