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Show 15 -- 12-- It is about 4 1/ 2 miles from the junction of the two rivers. R. 53- 54. He ran that rapids, which is relatively easy, although Brown lost a raft in it in which he had put the provisions for their boats, but they were able to control things and got through very nicely. He identifies Complainant's Exhibit No. 27, a photograph, which " is intended to indicate the character of the river at about this point ( indicating), that is, between Rapids No. 1 and 2 and 3. I photographed it simply because it was the first rough water that we had come to, and it was just typical. Later on we came to many miles of such places." R. 54. He and his party ran rapids No. 1, 2 and 3, out beyond the rough water place. He identifies Complainant's Exhibit No. 28, a photograph. " A That is a photograph of my expedition lining one of the large boats around the upper part of Rapids No. 5. " Q What do you mean by ' lining' a boat? " A When you come to a rapids that is too rough to run through, you run your boats ashore; and we had long lines on the bow and also on the stern of each boat. Then we would jockey the boats down along the shore, it being necessary to have men on both the bow line and the stern line; also men out in the river, lifting the boat over, pushing it around and out and getting it down along the rocks along the shore. The lining we found to be a very difficult and dangerous operation." R. 55. |