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Show 433 assistance to you? " A. Not at all, as I can see. The only thing a map might tell you, was wan the rapid is, the name of it, or where it was located. I was looking at one of your maps you had in there; I couldn't see that would help me any in going through that canyon. " Q. When you come to a rapid, just how do you negotiate that rapid? What is your procedure? " A. The first thing is to stop before I get too close, so I can stop; in the still part of the water above the rapid there is always a still space of water; stop and go down and look the rapid over, see if there is a possible channel or way a man can navigate a boat through it without hitting a rock or striking waves so high that there is danger of putting you underneath, filling your boat with water, or something like that. " You know about what your load is; you know about what your boat is carrying, and about what kind of waves you can battle with. If there is my possible way you can see that it looks like it is safe enough for a man that is in there alone, or two parties, - that I can get through without losing my outfit, you would naturally get in your boat and go and pick down through where you had sized it up and looked it ever and thought you could make it, as near as you could possibly. " Q. Then in running rapids, every rapid you run, |
