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pages 6-7

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026r http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,643
Title pages 6-7
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-04
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
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Description that with strangers who come here to tackle the Bend. And mostly they succeed. There was one chap they couldn't stop, though. He was a professor of some kind from Philadelphia. Fact is, he wasn't enough frightened. That's a bad thing with the Columbia, which isn't to be taken liberties with. I buried him near the head of Kinbasket Lake. We'll see his grave when we come down from Surprise Rapids. I'll want to stop off for a bit and see if the cross I put up is still standing. He was . . ."...

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