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Show or rock the boats , any way 562 they could . F rom the mouth of the Green River to the head of the ( cata cata- cata ) racts , did not experience any difficulty in there . In Cataract Canyon they started in at the upper end with eight men and two boats , and came out at the lower end with eight men and one boat . In No . 13 ( rapid-the rapidthe ) rapids ( -of of ) Cataract canyon are rock rapids , caused by the wash from the side canyons that comes in and washes the boulders and rocks out into the river , forming dams , what we call dams ; then that backs the water up , makes a smooth place above , then you have your fall , then your heavy waves at the ( bottom-in bottomin ) No . 13 rapid , No . 13 , which we reached on the second day from the first camp we made on the ( Colorado- Colorado ) we generally got out when we would get to these ( rapids ra-Pids raPids ) , to examine them and try to pick out the best channel we could pick ; with the style of boats we had , we ( couldn't couldnt ) go down the river backwards ; we had to get out in the current and get the boats to go faster than the water , in order to get ( steer steer- steer ) age way , which you would have to do with any large boat , if you wanted to go through a place like that . They would get out , the oarsmen would pull as hard as they could to get the boat going . faster than the water ; then we had a chance to dodge these rocks or these bad places in the river , and get through . The first boat started out , got about ( half-way halfway balf-way balfway ) down this rapid , and saw they ( weren't werent ) going to get in the channel , tried to pull |