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Show Anderson- D 730 tighter and tighter; if you hold the boat up there and get the water away from it, you get a channel through and get loose. Q When you got to the mouth of the Green, did you turn up the Colorado then? A Yes. Q How far did you go? A Went up six or seven miles, I don't know how far. Q To what point? A Went up to that cataract, I called it. Q The slide? A I would call it the slide, I think what it really was; why we didn't notice it in the first place, with the row boats, we went up with a row boat in extreme low water; there was two big boulders, big rocks lying on each side of that place; in low water there was nothing to back the water up. We never noticed it. When the water was high, it made a dam, that made a gorge in there, and we come through there like a mill- race, butted into it with my boat, knocked ma clear around like that ( indicating), in whirlpool; then we landed over on the bank. That is the way it was. Q Did that do any damage to your boat? A No. Q After you were swung around that way, then what did you do with 2698 |