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Show 714 " THE SPECIAL MASTER: No, describe the whole trip, whether you had difficulties or not. " A. The way we went through there, we would come to a rapid, we would walk along the bank, look it over and spot the rocks in there that we could, and pick out the channel as near as we could from the shore. " Then one boat would go through, and if he went through the channel that we had spotted all right, than the other boats would follow through the some channel. " There was two boats going through Cataract canyon that struck rocks and were slightly damaged, so that they had to be repaired; and there was one rapid known as Dark Canyon rapid, on the lower end of the cataracts, we had to portage our car-go around the rapid and line our boats part way through, and then shot the remainder of the rapid. BY MR. BLACKMAR: " Q. Were any of your boats lost in Cataract canyon? " A. No sir. " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q. How far apart did you proceed? " A. The boats? " Q. Yes; how close were the boats to each other? you had six boats? " A. We had six boats. " In waters where safe to travel that way, that is, going through rapids, the boats would run through at an inter-val of about fifteen minutes, but in stiller, smoother water, |