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Show 5606 Hite- D 56 3613 could have got it up by its own power. Q Well, on the trip up the river, did the engine on this boat run? could not make it. And that was pretty fair water. It was pretty swift, but not rough water. Q Did the engine run? A Yes, sir, it did. Q Did it turn over the propeller? A It did , yes, sir; but it did not do good work, no. And we fooled with it there or four days working on the engines to try to get it to assist us to take the boat up. And he abandoned the idea. Q What I an trying to get at is, was the difficulty with the boat engine trouble, or was it lack of power? A I don't remember now. It was lack of power, evi-dently, because it would not move itself. It would run the propeller all right, but it would not run itself in that current. In fact, they turned it around to go back down, and we had a little time stopping it to keep It from going |