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Show 28 -- 25-- All three boats got through safely at the turn, eight miles below Greenriver, and except for Parley Galloway none of the party had been through there before. After getting through Cataract Canyon, had easy going through there on down to the Arizona- Utah line. R. 76. " Q And when you say " easy going," you mean that you encountered no difficulties or impediments to your journey? " A Not after we had gone through Cataract Canyon. It is a relative term. " Q That is just what I mean. Through that stretch of more than one hundred miles, or whatever it is, from Cataract Canyon, to the Utah- Arizona line, it was calm and easy water, was it? " A No, there were two rapids in that territory, what we would call easy rapids, and we experienced no difficulty." R. 77. There are comparatively few streams that in the course of say fifty miles, do not have riffles, more or lean rapid water, and varying speeds of water. " I would like to differentiable between rapid water and rapids. Rapid water may mean simply fast- flowing water, which offers no difficulty at all. When you come to rapids, however, you have a sudden sharp drop. There may be rocks in the way, and you have to steer with very great care; and in these places in the Grand Canyon they were so bad that they were enough to get water into our boats; that is our boats tilted and tipped so that we shipped some water. No, it is not a typical easy stretch of water; that is, at those two points it is not." R. 77- 78. |