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Show 991 so many times there is no channel through which to even run a row boat. " Q That is not the question. You can not discern a channel where there is no channel, but Mr. Blackmar's question was whether you could discern the channel. " A No, not of a crossing." R. 2350. Difficulties with channel crossings and sand bars occurred daily and sometimes several times a day. " Q And how did you get off when you got stuck on those? " A Lots of times we would leave the boats standing there and wade around, try to find a deeper place than where we were, end there has been time you get up on a sandbar, you couldn't find a place; I would get around and lift the boat around like that and like that ( indicating) until I got it off: probably the sand had piled up there across the river, making a sand reef across. " Q Is it more difficult to take a keel boat off a sandbar than a flat boat? " A A great deal more difficult; you just draw the width of your keel more than you will a flat bottom boat. " Q How did you and Mr. Monette and Mr. Russell get through Cataract Canyon? " A We struck numerous rocks in the rapids, but we only portaged one rapid, boats and loads and everything. " Q And do you recall which rapid that was? " A If I am not mistaken, it is No. 55 in the book there; I think it is 55, what used to be locally known as the sixteenth cataract, which is a bad one in Cataract canyon; we got over that nicely; I struck a rock, my beat went completely under the water, but is was made so it came right up and |