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Show 525 the head boatman of the expedition and Mr . . ( LaRuo LaRua ) was the technical director . Mr . Smith was ( the- the the ) . assistant director of the movie company . Mr . . ( La- La ) Rue did not assist very much in operating the boats . At times ( he lie ) would row for a little while , . as all of the passengers did , to relieve the boatmen . . ( R . 1819 . ) They came out of Cataract Canyon the day after , Thanksgiving and stayed that night at Hite , Utah . . The river through there appears to be all right , but is kind of boiling on the surface , rolling around , and the first thing you know , your boat goes ( side-- side ) ways , or cuts around in a circle . There are also bad whirlpools that get your ( boat boat- boat ) completely out of control . This occurred ( more more- more ) below Hite and closer to Lees ( Perry Ferry ) . A few miles below Hite there is a rapid known as Bull Frog , , , that has rather fast water ; and one about one ( hun- hun ) dred miles above Lees Ferry that is called ( Whirl- Whirl ) pool Rapids , which is rougher than Bull Frog , and rather swift water . Above one of these ( rapids rapids- rapids ) they had boats stuck on the gravel and two or three men ( had bad ) to get overboard and dislodge them . He believes this happened above both Bull Frog and Whirlpool Rapids . ( R . ( 1818-1820 1818-4820 ) . ) At the mouth . of the canyon that leads up to the Natural Bridge , two of them grounded , and all down through ( Grlen Glen ) Canyon there were sand bars , ( different diffeTent ) boats would lodge , and it would be necessary to get overboard . . to flood them off . ( R . 1821 . ) |