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Show 3989 Kane- D 2009 river. When Best and McDonald stayed on the rock, and I had been picked up and come back, we throwed a light line -- tied a twine to a small rock, and one of the men that was a good thrower threw it out across the rock; then we tied another line we had on the other boat, and they pulled it over -- McDonald and Best pulled the line over. We had hooks, grapple hooks on a short throwing line, thirty- five or forty feet long, that in case a man was in the water and anybody in a boat or on the shore close by, they could swing that and throw it to them, or hook provisions; one boat in the Grand canyon was washed out and I hooked those ones up. We sent one of those lines over with the other line, and they hooked up this rope fast on the end of the boat, and swung it down the river; it wasn't long enough to reach the shore; we had plenty of lines, and had a couple of small blocks and tackles, connected those lines with a block on shore fastened around a rock, and we tried to pull it up, pull it enough so we could turn it loose. We couldn't do it, couldn't budge it; we broke a new three- quarter inch line with the men pulling with the power we had on the block, and broke that line. Then we took some driftwood over and made short gin poles, fastened them on the top of the rock and slanted |