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Show 920 and other stuff the water wouldn't hurt. " But they lost them, lost all that food in Cataract canyon, in trying to let them run with the boats when they were lining them through. " The second boat after the black Betsy, the line fouled, the line holding the boats as she was running loose down stream; she up- ended; just the minute you check the boat in a stiff rapid, the current was so swift on the bow, although she is sharp there, the back end ended up, and she dove, and we lost that second boat there. " The boats wouldn't stand the force of the water, when they get under and you hold them still, if you let them go they would be like a ship, come up again. " Then we lost the third boat; Mr. Reynolds was in the third boat, around one of the rapids; he had hold of the line; they was lining that, and boat, when we lost it and it went down, he went down with the boat, but he held to wreck of the boat. " That was the third board in Cataract Canyon. Then we concluded we wouldn't risk it; we got driftwood and laid it down on the rocks, and skidded them along on the keel, in place of lining them through, to save them, and then at the lower edge we put them in and run." R. 2176- 2177. The boats were skidded along sometimes for a distance of a hundred yards, sometimes less, across the rapids, sometimes one side of the river, sometimes the other. After the boats had been skidded along they would be placed back in the water again in the stretch of river between the rapids, and then when they came to another rapid place, they |
