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pages 108-109

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026by http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,664
Title pages 108-109
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-09
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Description her through if the course had been clear. Missing two or three rocks by inches, she rasped half her length along another, and onto a fourth—lurking submerged by a foot—she jammed full tilt. It was her port bow that struck, and from the crash it seemed impossible that she could have escaped holing. Andy went over the side so suddenly that, until I saw him balancing on a rock and trying to keep the boat from backing off into the current, I thought he had been thrown overboard by the impact....

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