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Show 77 Q And when you say " easy going," you mean that you en-countered no difficulties or impediments to your journey? A Not after we had gone through Cataract Canyon. It is a relative term. Q That is just what I mean. Through that stretch of one hundred miles, or whatever it is, from Cataract Canyon, to the Utah- Arizona line, it was calm and easy water, was it? A No, there were two rapids in that territory, what we would call easy rapids, and we experience no difficulty. Q Well, they were in no way impediments to navigation?-- I will withdraw that question for the moment. There are com-paratively few streams that, in the course of, say, 50 miles, do not have riffles, more or less rapid water, and varying speeds of water; is that not correct? A Yes. Q And you state that there were two places between Cataract Canyon and the Utah- Arizona State line where the water was somewhat rapid? A I would like to differentiate between rapid water and rapids. Rapid water may mean simply fast- flowing water, which offers no difficulty at all. When you come to rapids, however, you have a sudden sharp drop. There may be rocks in the way, and you have to steer with very great care; and in these places in the Grand Canyon they were so bad that they were enough to get water into our boats; that is, our boats 2037 |