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Show 947 " Q Tell me about the operation of the boats with particular reference as to how they were propelled and what difficulties if any they encountered. " A Our boats drew probably six to eight inches of water, and the current of the San Juan always being very swift downstream, the boat was backed downstream by rowing up stream. In other words, your boat was pointed up stream and you were rowing up stream in order to guide the boat, - of course, the boat all the time was going down stream, but going up stream in relation to the motion of the water." R. 2241- 2242. " At times we had to pull the boats down stream, due to the water being not enough to carry the boat with our ordinary packing, nobody in them. " Q Was that a daily occurrence? " A During lower stages it was a daily occurrence." R. 2242. Between Bluff and the junction of the San Juan with the Colorado, he estimates he encountered perhaps thirty rapids. The party was re- supplied with provisions an average of every two weeks, the same being brought to them by Wesley Oliver of Mexican Hat, with pack mules, and at the mouth of the San Juan on the Colorado, where a cache was left by boats on the Colorado River. He doesn't know where the supplies came from that were left at the cache at the mouth of the San Juan; they came down the Colorado from some point but he doesn't know where. R. 2243. The same boats were used on the Colorado as were used coming down the San Juan. Less trouble was encountered on the Colorado than on the San Juan, although there was difficulty where there were several similar rapids below the junction of the San Juan River. |