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Show 317 change its channel over to another place. Water always does that. " Q. So the channel had shifted various places between? " A. It is our own knowledge and supposition that the channel between these bends is continually changing, it fills up with its own silt. " Q. Who took the boats through Cataract? " A. I would run one boat through - " THE SPECIAL MASTER: The witness has not used " cataracts". " Cataracts" is a term of very wide meaning. " MR. BLACKMAR: I referring to Cataract Canyon. " A. Major Powell called those rapids cataracts because they were big, violent water, lots of rock, and I would run one boat through a rapid, tie the others up at the head of the rapid, get down into quiet water below the whirlpools, where I could make a landing, and would walk back along the shore and run a second boat through. My brother frequently would be on the shore making motion pictures of the action of the boats in the water, and in most cases I would run a third boat through in the same way. My brother, if he wasn't busy making a picture, would run his boat through. His was the same boat he used on the first trip, repaired, and on twelve occasions he helped me with one of my boats, usually this light |