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Show 23 -- 20-- Canyon. It simply is intended to show the type of walls and the character of the river at that point." R. 66. He identifies Complainant's Exhibits No. 43 and 44 respectively, photographs taken at the point where Dark Canyon enters Cataract Canyon. Dark Canyon and Dark Canyon Rapids are to be found between miles 182- 183 on sheet No. 12 of the river plan and profile maps of the Colorado River. " At this point ( indicating on map), the river is swept against the right bank, which is a sheer cliff, the right bank being the west bank of the river. And in this pile of debris that has been washed out of Dark Canyon, I found a side channel, indicated in the picture here ( indicating). It seemed easier for us to line the boats throng this side channel than to attempt to run through the rapids. Accordingly, we lined them through here ( indicating). But even here in this little side canyon, as you can see, there is a good deal of declivity, and the velocity of the current is so groat and so heavy that the currents pulled the boat away from these men who were holding onto it here ( indicating); it pulled it away from them entirely, and I looked up to see this boat being swept up this little channel, up toward the main body of the river. And that was not the worst of it; there was a man holding onto it. Fortunately, the boat swung down and got in the backwater on the downstream side of this pile of debris, and was thrown on down shore, so that the boat |