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only a luminous lilac mist floating above the southwestern mountains to mark where the sun had set; but it was enough—just enough—to throw a glow of pale amethyst on the frothy tops of the white-caps, leaving the untorn water to roll on in...
2004-08-16
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insignificant stream as viewed from the Columbia, and one would never suspect that it is navigable for good-sized stern-wheelers for a considerable distance above its mouth. On the right bank of the Columbia, just above the mouth of the Okinagan,...
2004-08-16
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rub. There were locks at the Cascades and the Dalles, but Rock Island, Cabinet, Priest and Umatilla, to say nothing of a number of lesser rapids would have to be run. It was a big gamble, insurance, of course, being out of the question on any...
2004-08-16
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Image captions: RAFT IN TOW OF LAUNCH NEAR MOUTH OF SAN POIL (above)
IKE AT THE SWEEP BELOW HELL GATE (below) --page break-- he was ready for action—standing with crooked elbow at his crank, waiting an hour or more for the raft to shoot...
2004-08-16
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Image captions: NIGHT WAS FALLING AS WE HEADED INTO BOX CANYON (above)
THE COLUMBIA ABOVE BOX CANYON (below) --page break-- The rock-littered channel of Moneghan's or Buckley's Rapids was easily threaded by the launch, and Equilibrium or...
2004-08-16
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CHAPTER XII
CHELAN TO PASCO For two reasons I am writing but briefly of our visit to Lake Chelan : first, because it was entirely incidental to the Columbia voyage, and, second, because one who has only made the run up and down this loveliest...
2004-08-16
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the course of a single "circular" trip by packtrain. To my great regret, it was not practicable to get an outfit together in the limited time at our disposal. The best we could do so late in the season was a hurried run up to Rainbow Falls, a most...
2004-08-16
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ciously with a description of running Box Canyon. But the gimlet-eyed thin one asked him what he got for doing a thing like that, and promptly their interest faded. And why should they have cared to waste time over a mere...
2004-08-16
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morning. A young reporter from the local paper called for an interview in the afternoon, and told us the story of the Douglas, the steamer which Captain McDermid had mentioned as having been lost in trying to take her to Portland. Selig had gone...
2004-08-16
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close that it was not safe to try to alter course either to left or right. There was nothing to do but run the gauntlet of the swervily swooping dust-tailed comets whose heads appeared to run the whole gamut of discard of a rather extravagant town...
2004-08-16
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pardonable. At least that was the way she seemed to look at it, and so I never felt inclined to blame her for taking matters into her own hands. Wallowing through a sharp bit of rapid a mile below the bridge washed the outside of her bright and...
2004-08-16
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description of how it looked for'ard just after that first big wave hit us. "The top of that comber was ten feet above your head," he said, "and it came curving over you just like the `canopy' of a `Jack-in-the-Pulpit.' "
With Imshallah rather...
2004-08-16
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their honeymoon by taking them a few miles down river in his boat. That would lend "heart interest and . . ." I throttled that scheme in the bud before my impetuous companion could broach it to the principals. I wasn't going to tempt the...
2004-08-16
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reflection of the straw-yellow band of broadening light creeping down the western bluff filled the gorge with a diffused golden glow that threw every rock and riffle into sharp relief. It was a dozen times better to see by than the blinding...
2004-08-17
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back up the "intake" of the fall, but there was one loop-hole which looked worth exploring before risking an almost certain mess-up in trying to work down the side of the cascade.
I have mentioned that I had expected to find a whirlpool under the...
2004-08-17
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he learned that we were not going to have to line the boat down it. Then he had one of his confounded inspirations. That portage over the reef of bedrock, with the little waterfall in the background, would photograph like a million dollars, he...
2004-08-17
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the pump-man's back cutting off his view ahead that was responsible for the little diversion that followed. A good part of the blame was doubtless my own for not keeping a sharper watch over my shoulder, as I certainly should have done had I been...
2004-08-17
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tended. Since she could hardly have avoided hitting the big roller anyhow, once she was so near, it is probably better that she hit it squarely than sidling. The crash was solid, almost shattering in its intensity, and yet I am not sure that she...
2004-08-17
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looked well to the oars and the trim of the boat before shoving off.
Once out into the river, I could see that the rapid was white from bank to bank, but still nothing that ought to trouble us seriously. I stood for a minute or two looking ahead...
2004-08-17
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ness." "Thankfulness for what?" I demanded; "it doesn't strike me as Christian to gloat over the wreck of a ship." "You don't get me at all," he expostulated. "I don't mean for him to show thankfulness because of the wreck of the steamer, but...
2004-08-17
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accurate in all of his topographical descriptions, I am strongly inclined to the belief that floods and the elements had conspired to wreak much havoc with "Victoria's" features in the forty years that had elapsed since he limned them so...
2004-08-17
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to a luminous blur behind the pall of the sand-filled air, and the wind, which headed us every now and then, about neutralized the impulse of the acceleraing current. There was a forty-miles-an-hour sandstorm blowing when we beached the boat under...
2004-08-17
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lumby." He offered to haul the boat to the foot of the rapids by the road for twenty dollars, but as the down-river branch of the Milwaukee presented an opportunity to accomplish the same end in less time and discomfort, I decided to portage by...
2004-08-17
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picture, and was ordered on to New York to report. We were both a good deal disappointed not to have a pictorial record of the "farmer" actually seeing the sea; in fact, we did some hours of "location" scouting in the hope of finding a substitute...
2004-08-23
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Information on fall, channel and the best means of running them I would have to pick up as I went along.
I shoved off from Pasco Ferry at nine o'clock in the morning of Sunday, November fourteenth. With Roos and his blanket-roll, camera and...
2004-08-23
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