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pages 148-149

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026ct http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,706
Title pages 148-149
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-09
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 became plain we could have run, and then he all but failed to land above one where a well-masked "souse-hole" would have gulped the boat in one mouthful. It was at this juncture that I asked him why he had never taken the trouble of making a rough chart of this portion of the river, so that he could be quite sure what was ahead. He said that the idea was a good one, and that it had often occurred to him. There were several reasons why he had never carried it out. One was, that he was always...

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