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Show Record a few yards, and from there on down, through the forty miles of Cataract Canyon and through the ten miles of Narrow Canyon, you have a very severe river, at one portion of which I think there is a fall of about two hundred and twenty feet in twenty miles. 1530 We ran some of the rapids and made portages around others, very often lining the boats. Sometimes we had to take the cargo out and carry it for some yards, one hundred yards, or perhaps a quarter of a mile, and then load up and go on in various ways. Our expedition lost no boats in Cataract Canyon. I do not remember how many rapids there were, but there were a great many. We hauled our boats over the land on the banks and also lined them 1531 at places. Every stage of water makes the cabaracts different. Sometimes two or three rapids at low water would be one rapid at a higher stage. If my book says there were sixty- two rapids, that is correct. There was one rapid in Glen Canyon, just below the mouth of the San Juan, but above that the water had been rather low and we encountered ledges running across the river, and the boats would ground on those ledges, so that we would have to get out and wade alongside and lift them over. When we went 1532 through Glen Canyon the second time, the water was very high and we had no trouble with those ledges. There are a number of small rapids and shallows we had trouble with. I remember no sand bars in Glen Canyon. We ran on to the ledges that I have mentioned. They and the rapids were the worst difficulty. Because the river 1533 was low we had to go with great caution there. We observed Indian caves and ruins on the river and storage caves in the walls for 1534 their corn. We do not know when this race of cave dwellers became extinct. Where on page 140 of my book " A Canyon Voyage" I speak of running into a sandstone shale which gave us some trouble for about five miles, I was referring to the ledges con- 1536 cerning which I have testified, and I would say that the place was 1537 seven or eight miles south of the Dirty Devil River. Over those ledges we had to get out of the boats and walk alongside, sometimes |
