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Show 1091 I dipped up water into the oil can; this ran down around the cylinders by gravity and cooled that. " Dipping of the water thus provided something more for me to do; one needed as many hands as an octopus to handle the engine and an occasional car for sounding." " Q. During the progress of the trip up stream did you encounter any rapids? " A. Rapid is an extremely elastic term. We find things called rapids on the Mississippi one would smile at if called a rapid out here.[ R. 2582] " In the first forty or fifty miles there is nothing except by a stretch of the imagination that any one would call a rapid. Heavy, strong, swirling current, but not the broken sort of thing one would call a rapid." R. 2583 The nearest thing that by any interpretation would be called a rapid was not very many miles below the mouth of the canyon which drains from Rainbow bridge; " I think it is called Aztec Canyon." " The condition is more serious then from the fact it was -- more difficult from the fact that that night there occurred one of the heaviest and most widely spread cloudbursts we encountered. A tremendous storm broke, precipitation heavy enough to raise the river several feet. -" R. 2583 Previous to reaching that rapid, " my engine had gone out completely, and that one of the other engines had also failed; my engine simply scoured out the gears; we left it |
