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Show 713 the water would bank up behind and ease the boat off. As he recalls, there were two or three miles of riffles farther down the stream. Two of the boats were stuck for fifteen or twenty minutes on sand- bars in shallow water between Greenriver and the mouth of the San Rafael and the men who were in the boats had to get out and shove them off. R. 1710- 1711. As he recalls, they left Greenriver about one o'clock in the afternoon and didn't reach the mouth of the San Rafael the first day. From the mouth of the San Rafael and the Colorado River, they had trouble running on sand-bars. Everything went all right with this exception. R. 1711- 1712. Mr. LaRue, in charge of the party, was in the leading boat and the other boats followed him one after the other. He recalls the boat he was operating was stuck once between the mouth of the San Rafael and the mouth of the Green River, and that the other boats were also stuck. They were stuck several times a day and the men would get in the water and push their boat off. R. 1812- 1713. Mr. LaRue wasn't a boatman; he was in the lead boat operated by Frank Dodge. They had no difficulty between the mouth of the Green River and the head of the cataracts. R. 1813. " Q. Tell me about getting this expedition through the cataracts and Cataract Canyon. " A. You mean what difficulties we had? " Q. Yes. " A. Why -- |