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Show 804 up, makes a smooth place above, then you have your fall, then your heavy waves at the bottom -- in No. 13 rapid, No. 13, which we reached on the second day from the first camp we made on the Colorado -- we generally got out when we would get ot these rapids, to examine them and try to pick out the boat channel we could pick; with the style of boats we had, we couldn't go down the river backwards; we had to get out in the current and get the boats to go faster than the water, in order to get steerage way, which you would have to do with any large boat, if you wanted to go through a place like that. " We would get out, the carem would pull as hard as they could to get the boat going faster than the water; then we had a chance to dodge these rooks or these bad places in the river, and get through. " The first boat started out, got about half way down this rapid, and saw they weren't going to get in the channel, tried to pull authors; they lost control of the boat and ran against one of these big boulders in the river, and the boat and the four men want down. " Q. Was this expedition equipped with life preservers? " A. Yes, sir. " Q. What character of life preservers? " A. Cork; warranted to float ninety pounds dead weight. " Q. Do you recall how many rapids you found in cataract canyon? " A. It is forty- one miles long; we counted over fifty rapids. " Q. Did you run all the rapids? |