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Show Record together; our boats got so filled up with water going through No. 4 rapid that we could not get one of them to shore between Rapid No. 4 and No. 5. This boat did get through but it was necessary 59 for us to repair a hole in it. Exhibits Nos. 32 and 33 are photo-graphs showing the character of the river through Cataract Canyon at relatively high water as indicated by the driftwood shown in the pictures. I think the rapid shown in these pictures in No. 5. 60 Exhibit No. 34 was taken to show the type of walls and the width 61 of the river in Cataract Canyon. Exhibits Nos. 35, 36 and 37 show a comparatively easy rapid in Cataract Canyon. We encountered about 50 to 55 bad rapids in the 40 mile length of Cataract Canyon and they are very apt to be found where indicated by the Government, although at high water conditions are different from 62 those shown on the Government maps. Exhibit No. 38 illustrates what we call a hole; it is formed when a large boulder out in the channel is covered by water pouring over it and dropping into the hole below forming a waterfall right in the middle of the river. The chief danger of a hole is that the water plunges down and then circles around and forms an eddy and comes back and ducks under again. Sometimes a log will be hold in a hole for hours. The holes, in my opinion, are the principal danger in the river because you can not always see them as you approach. One of our big boats was swept into a hole of this kind and if we had not bailed the boat with our hands and hats it would have filled with 63 - 64 water and sunk. Exhibit No. 39 is a photograph of Rapid No. 23. It was here that the flood struck us about July 5. I had made it a point to sleep at the very edge of the water so that if it rose during the night it would awaken me and I could arouse the camp. On that occasion I was awakened by the rising water about midnight and we hauled our boats between then and dawn about 25 or 30 feet up the steep slope as the water followed us. It rose that nigh to 119,000 second feet. By dawn it began to recede and by 2: 30 or - 9 - |