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Show 1166 downto the lower Colorado ( lie he ) went overland from Greenriver , and put his boats in the [ Colorado ] river at North ( Wash lVash ) , ( jnst just ) above Hite . He ( didn't didnt ) ( encounter encouliter ) any rapids between North Wash and Lees ( Perry Ferry ) . ( R . 4624 . ) No white water at all . ( ( E R ) . 4624 . ) ( What Afliat ) they call ( "white white ) ( water" water ) on the Green ( River 1--viver 1viver ) , are those riffles ; what they call rapids is what is in the cataracts . No place did he encounter any water that he ( would -would would ) call white ( water -water water ) . ( R . 4624 . ) On this trip ( they -they they ) encountered whirlpools , but he ( doesn't doesnt ) recall encountering any sand waves on the Colorado . In his ( experience experieiice ) on the Green , and on that ( sec- sec ) tion of the Colorado formerly called the Grand , he - ( would vould ) not find the sand in the channels shifting . about , unless it was caused by some flood , or ( some- some ) ( thing -thing thing ) like that , which would shift the ( channel cha-nnel channel ) . The channels generally appear in the same place every ( year -year year ) , although there might be an obstruction formed from high water ( which -which which ) ( would woiild ) divert the current from what it ( had bad ) been the year before , and change the channel . He ( wouldn't wouldnt ) say that the river bed had ( 110 11o ) ( permanency permaneiley ) , as it has a permanency , and he can find deep water . ( R . 4625 . ) With the power boats he has never made a trip ( that -that that ) he ( hasn't hasnt ) been stuck on a sand bar , and he has been stuck on sand bars ( with vith ) rowboats . He ( wasn't wasnt ) stuck on a sand bar on the Colorado River from . North Wash to Lees Ferry . He ( couldn't couldnt ) say that ( he -he he ) had never made one trip on the Green or the |