OCR Text |
Show 282 " Q. What was the trouble there, the width of your boat? " A. No. " Q. Plenty of water for the draft? " A. The water came through so fast we couldn't go through it. " Q. Was the trouble with the power? " A. No, plenty of power for that size boat for ordinary river navigation. " Q. If you had plenty of leeway to your boat, and plenty of power, why couldn't you get up? " A. We had plenty of power. " Q. If you had plenty of leeway for the boat and plenty of power, why couldn't you have got up? " A. There was no boat could get up, because it would drown you, sink you right there. The only thing that saved us from getting drowned was, when I got up to it I saw what I was up against, and I swung the bow over and butted into the rocks; it threw me out; I didn't get the swell of the water over me. That is the fact of it." R. 731- 732. The trip back up the river wasn't quite as hard as the trip down, although the crew was fighting sand bars all the way. The sand bars were encountered all the way along the trip. R. 732- 733. " Q. After you got to the mouth of the San Rafael, did you have any trouble from then on up to Greenriver? " A. We had trouble at San Rafael; we stayed there about two days; that is where the balance of the crew left us. |