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Show familiar with the river and 69 a better hand with outboard motors , usually got ahead of the rest of us and would come back and help someone ( along- along along ) , , . He ( had bad ) warned me that a plunger pump was entirely useless and showed me a ( prac- prac ) tical way of avoiding the effect of sand and silt on our . motors . ( R . 2576-82 , Vol . 14 . ) In the first 40 or 50 miles we encountered nothing that by any stretch of imagination could be called . a rapid , the nearest approach to a rapid being at Aztec Canyon . The engines in my boat and in that of another member of the party there became out of ( com- com ) mission , whereupon Wimmer lashed his boat behind one of the other boats tandem fashion and the other two , boats were simply fastened together , each unit thus having a length of 36 feet , and in this fashion we continued on upstream with one motor in each rear boat , aiding the motors by rowing . I ( can't cant ) estimate the number of times we got stuck between Warm Creek and Halls Crossing ; sometimes our trouble was with sand bars and at other times from rocks and current . ( R . 2583-6 , Vol . 14 . ) We averaged slightly better than 10 miles a day . After reaching Halls Crossing I took a boat and with three companions went upstream from there 10 miles through Bullfrog Rapid and to a , creek above that point . On our return journey to Lees Ferry we had occasional groundings on sand ( bars-perhaps barsperhaps ) a few . more than on the upstream trip , our boats being more heavily loaded coming back . There were only five in our return trip party and we went down with the four boats tandem fashion as on the upstream journey . Going down we ( spent SPOA ) something like a week on the river , making stops , side trips and surveys . ( R . 2588-90 , Vol . 14 . ) ( I 1 ) did not make any specific observation as to the location of any change in the channel between the up and downstream trip ; we occasionally remarked that the channel had changed here and there or we might have said that the water was ( shal- shal ) lower tan it had been , but one takes that as a matter of course in any sand bar river ; you get it anywhere . ( R . 2593 , Vol . 14 . ) Our Evinrude motors were 3 or ( 4-horsepower 4horsepower ) and my Elto motor was ( 3-horsepower 3horsepower ) . Each of our units consisted of two boats lashed together and were powered by one of these motors . Our downstream trip was easier than ( up- up ) stream , the difference between the two trips being ( "just just ) the difference the current makes , inseparable from all up and downstream navigation . " With clean water you would |