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Show Record surface is very close to the water and we grated along there. Down further we came into small - couldn't exactly be called rapids, but between a rapid and a riffle; the rocks are protruding all along the surface of the stream; we had quite a bit of difficulty getting through there. It was necessary to stop our boats and get out and pick a course in order to get through at all." Resuming his direct examination Mr. Daily testified: 2302 The largest rapids we encountered on our trip came just after we got by the riffles, after you leave the junction you go by a certain amount of riffles; then you come into Cataract Canyon where it was very tough going for boats, The rocks are very numerous and large there and it is very hard to get through. The water is so shallow that we were in doubt several times whether we could get the boats through there without portaging them around and we did portage some of the rapids. We did not lose any boats but the rock knocked holes in several of them and we repaired 2303 them and went on. I remember Hite, which is an abandoned mining town, and there are numerous sand bars around with which we had a good deal of trouble; the water is very shallow. Just below Hite the sand bars are numerous; before you get into Lee's Ferry we didn't have any sand bars. I am not sure whether we ran into any more riffles or rapids between Hite and Lee's Ferry. I was a boatman on this party and from Cataract Canyon to Lee's Ferry we 2304 met no other people on the river. We saw no other boats. We were ten or eleven days short of our schedule owing to low water and difficulties in navigation. litigation rose so that our film has not yet been publicly shown. Dean Daily testified on cross examination as follows: I never wore a life preserver, but all of the rest of the party wore them. Bert Loper testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: |