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Show 3988 Kane- D 2008 numb, and would slip off; I couldn't see, but I knew I was among rocks in quiet water; I rested a while on shore, and went back up, after I had rested a while, up to camp. Q what became of that boat? A That boat stayed there for twelve days; we tried to pull it off. On each boat we had a long tow line, used for landing, and then a short line, about twenty- five or thirty feet long, to land the boat -- to tie it up. In that fast water in those canyons you have to make what we called a flying landing; be traveling ten or fifteen -- in Grand canyon many times twenty miles an hour; had to land among the rocks; the steersman would point his boat towards the shore downstream, and would get close; little eddies always under the bank that helps you land; then this short rope, the bow oarsman, which was me in Mr. Stanton's boat, would pick up the short landing line and jump shore and hold it; sometimes have to take sort of a turn around a rock, or get in between the rocks and brace myself and hang on. This long line, when we struck this rock at rapid 13, had come loose; it was coiled up on the bow of the boat, and tied with a string, lightly, so if we needed we could pull it off quick, but tight enough to keep it there, so the rough water washing over would not wash it away. When the boat turned over that rope was carried down past the rock -- the rock was almost in the middle of the |
