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Show 746 boat in big waves. The boat had about eighteen inches freeboard, but became filled with water. Everything was swept out of it except himself and the supplies, which were under the canvas covers. Two waves swept entirely over the boat and himself, tore away the canvas fenders that had been built around the cock- pits, but he succeeded in getting over to a sand bar immediately below the rapid, where he and pulled the boat on the bank, tipped it up, emptied the water out and went on. He didn't try to do a thing like that again. R. 1787- 1788. Below Cataract Canyon they entered Narrow Canyon and found the river lose turbalent, but there were still patches of swift water. The run all the water in Narrow Canyon. From Narrow Canyon on down to Lee's Ferry, the difficulties encountered were grounding on sand bars. R. 1788. They followed the same practise of getting off of the sand bars; pushing off where they could, and going overboard where they couldn't push the boats off. They carried sufficient supplies so it was not necessary to be re- supplied any place between Greenriver, Utah and Lee's Ferry, Arizona. Going through the section of Glen Canyon that he had formerly visited, he saw no placer operators in there on this trip. He saw three men from Searchlight, Nevada, who were going in to what is now known as Wright's Bar, about twenty or twenty- five miles above Lee's Ferry, Arizona. R. 1789. He saw Fred Giboons at Hite, and visited Cass Hite a little lower down. There was still a post office maintained |