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Show 4154 McDonald- D 2174 aground and get out and wade, pull the boats off; once we got out and got them lined up we could easy get them off them places. The sand is shifting in there all the time. It is a good deal like sand on the desert, that you get out there anywhere, when the wind is blowing. You may drive across Death Valley, any place, the same as I have, just as nice a road as you want, and come along tomorrow and there is a pile of sand piled up; it is the same in the river; it keeps changing. Q Now, Mr. McDonald, just tell me about the progress of this expedition through Cataract canyon. A What Q The progress of your party through Cataract canyon. A You see, they had no life preservers the first trip. When I met Mr. Stanton and Mr. Brown, they told me about going down, I asked them where the life preservers was; they said they didn't have any -- Q Never mind the conversation that you had with Mr. Stanton. You didn't have any life preservers? A Didn't have any life preservers. Q Just tell me about that trip through Cataract canyon and what you saw, not what anybody told you, just what you saw, and what was done there. A I saw that we didn't have no life preservers. |