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Show 96 boat, and turn the boat around stern first-- or, at least, that is the way that I prefer to do it-- stern first, and then you go down into the rapids with your cars, using your cars as brakes and also to help guide you away from the rocks and holes, etc. So that is the approved fashion of going through now, stern first. Q Mr. Eddy, is this book of yours, which carries the imprint of Frederick A Stokes & Co., New York City, 1929, an accurate and correct story of your travels down the river? A It is. Q And the photographs contained herein ( indicating) were made at the time? A Yes. I made two trips down the river. I went in the winter, and some of those photographs were made in the winter trip, but they were all taken on the river by me. Q On this winter trip of yours, where did you start in? A Lees Ferry Q And you continued how far? A To Bright Angle Creek, in Grand Canyon. Q And that was as far as that expedition went? A Yes, sir. My expedition and the Government's expedition are the only ones that have got through in about twenty years. Q Mr. Eddy, from the other expeditions that you have investigated that have made this same trip, are you able to 2056 |