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Show 4357 Loper- D 2377 Q Did you make any stops between the mouth of the San Rafael and the mouth of the Green river? A Just the ordinary stops, is all, nothing extra, nothing out of the ordinary, just camps. Q And do you recall how many days it took you to get down there? A No sir, I don't recall. Q Tell me about the progress of this trip through Cataract canyon. A When we entered cataracts, of course, naturally, we thought we knew the river, to a certain extent; but we didn't; because in 1907, 1, 2, 3 and 4 was rather mil rapids; 5 was a bad one. In 1914, 1, 2, 3, and 4 was fierce once, and 5 was gone entirely. In No. 4 I really believe that the waves was twenty feet high. I made this calculation because my boat was sixteen feet long; I had that to go by; my boat would be clear down in the troughs, and from the length of the boat and everything I calculated them waves to be at least twenty feet high. Right below there, where the bad rapid was, we expected trouble there; went down and sailed peacefully through; no rapid there. But the rapids was fierce, that is, down below, the rapids was all bad. To explain a rapid, as a rule a rapid draws down in a long, smooth stretch of water in the form of a |