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Show Record the one I have mentioned when we portaged and lined our boats. Only the boatman would ride a boat through a rapid and the others would walk around it. In going through most of the rapids the place where the oarsman sat would ship anywheres 1716 from six inches of water to enough to fill the cockpit. After a boat ran a rapid it would pull to shore and wait for the other boats to come through, so that there would be one boat there to pick a man up in case necessity arose. We had life preservers. 1717 The rapids were run stern foremost. The boat have no rudders. From the feet of Cataract Canyon to Lee's Ferry the difficulties encountered consisted of running on gravel bars, where the water was so shallow that the boats would drag. One or two of the boats were hung up so that a man had to get out and push them off. We also had difficulties with what they call whirlpools that catch your boat and turns it on you, so that it is quite 1718 difficult to get your boat out. We encountered no rapids in Glenn Canyon. There were riffles, but not what I call a rapid. What I mean by a riffle is water that is not very swift and that is going over a shallow place, and a rapid is a place where the water is very swift and the river has quite a drop and is full of 1719 large boulders. We took moving pictures all the way down on our trip. We camped at Hite one night but saw no people there. We met some Indians at Hole- in- the- Rock on the Colorado. We had just crossed the river and were going out. They were the only persons we met between there and Green River, Utah. We arrived at Lee's 1720 Ferry on November 30 or December 1. The entire trip took twenty- one days, I think. While in the Navy I had quite a bit of experience in handling row boats. I could not have brought my row boat back up from Lee's Ferry alone; it probably would have been a possible thing to do with a man who had plenty of assistance and equipment; but I would say that it would have required six men to take my boat back up as far as the cataracts; and going up through the cataracts it would have been necessary to portage around every |