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Show 571 " A When we started from Greenriver they drew within three or four inches of the gunnel; after going a mile we found the boats were too heavily loaded, and we pulled ashore and made a raft, and in each of the five boats we had a zinc container in which photographic stock and perishable food was placed and sealed, and those five containers were taken out of the boats and placed on that raft, and the raft was towed by the cooks in the sixth boat." R. 1398 In the upper end of Stillwater canyon difficulties were found with sand and small rapids. No difficulties were encountered down to the head of the Cataracts after leaving Stillwater Canyon R. 1398. After getting through the cataracts there was not much left of the boats and provisions. R. 1399. " Q Just start in at the head of the cataracts, and tell me of your progress down the cataracts. " A Six miles below the head of the river or the junction there -- it was the head, at that time -- was our first rapid. Some of the boats ran the rapid, and some of them we had to portage; the cooks had difficulty with their boat and the raft; and in the second rapid, shortly below that, the raft got away from the cooks and went down stream. " Further down the river there it broke up, and from time to time we would find one of these floats, as we called it, -- one of those cans, and we would get it. We got three of the floats that were not damaged; the other two had got broken on the rocks, and when we could come |
