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Show 742 covered in at all. " A. They were intended to be decked over, water proof and sir tight fore and aft of the one cook - it where the oarsman eat; but unfortunately they were not constructed that way, and had nothing but a canvas flap over the bow, a very flimsy affair over the stern. " Q. So they were practically open boats? " A. They were practically open boats, yes." R. 1781- 1782. He recalls that the boats grounded a number of times on sand or mud bars between Greenriver, Utah, and the mouth of the San Rafael, and that they experienced a good deal of trouble from sand bars all along through Labyrinth Canyon. There was, also, a good deal of swift water between Greenriver, Utah, and the mouth of the San Rafael. When the boats hit a sand bar they would sometimes have to get out and pull the boat over, and others where the bars were not filled with coarse gravel, they could rock the boat from side to side, in that way loosen the mud up, and the current would take it away, and finally the boat would float off. They possibly grounded one or two times from Labyrinth canyon to the region of the cataracts but not very much; the groundings and things of that kind being just incidents, and all in the day's work. R. 1782 - 1783. " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q. Did the boat have rudders: " A. No sir, they were flat bottomed, your Honor, with a snag that could be detached, and in the more quiescent parts |