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Show 992 went on; no trouble at all." R. 2350- 2351. The members of the party wore life preservers and did not run a rapid without having them on. Many times they would not be taken off between rapids; " if we was starting out of smooth water, probably wouldn't put them on until we got to the first rapid." R. 2351. The life preservers were not worn on the Green River. On the trip in 1907 the party camped at Mill Creek Bend at the end of Cataract Canyon, where Narrow Canyon begins which is six or seven miles long, very narrow, and the water is still so that a person, in order to make time in a boat at all, has to work hard. It had rained that night, the party was wet, the boats were wet. From the end of Cataract Canyon the party proceeded on down past the mouth of the Fremont or Dirty Devil to Hite, there they stayed several days. The water in the narrow part of Cataract Canyon is not over one hundred feet wide and is very still and deep. The water is quiet in Narrow Canyon because it is so deep. " Frank Bennett and I made a trip through there: we had a pole about sixteen feet long; we pushed it down in several places, clear to the end, lots of places never touched bottom." From the Fremont or Dirty Devel down to Hite they had the same " old conditions again." At the mouth of North Wash they had a crossing bar, and naturally the channel crossed also. " The channel across the gravel reef of this bar crossing is always very narrow; there is just one little channel through there, and there is one place in particular in Glen canyon where that channel has been there ever since, |