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Show 62 Exhibit 38, and ask you to tell us about that, ( handing photograph to witness). A ( Examining photograph) This photograph illustrates what we call a hole. A hole is formed when a large boulder out in the channel of the river lies there and is covered over by the water coming down. The water pours over it and drops down into the hole below, forming a waterfall right in the middle of the river. The chief danger of a hole is that the water will plunge down, and then circle around and form an eddy, and come back and duck under again. I have seen logs ten or fifteen feet long held in a hole for hours while the water throws it to the bottom of the river, scrapes it against the rocks, and lets it come up again. The holes, in my estimation, are one of the principal dangers in the river, because you can not always see them when you are going down towards them from above. One of my big boats, a 22- foot boat, was swept down towards a hole of this kind one day, and we saw it too late to avoid it. The boat was swung around, the bow first plunged over the rocks into the hole, and then ran submerged for the fraction of a minute, then came forward with the forward cockpit level full of water. Our bails were thrown out, and if we had not bailed the boat with our hands and hats we would have been full of water and would have sunk. Holes are highly respected by river men. Mr. Blackmar: This photograph is offered in evidence as 2022 |
