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pages 198-image

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026dx http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,736
Title pages 198-image
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-11
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Description The boat trimmed well when we came to stow the load the next morning, but when the three of us took our places she was rather lower in the water than we had expected she was going to be. She seemed very small after Blackmore's big thirty-footer, and the water uncomfortably close at hand. She was buoyant enough out in the current, however, and responded very smartly to paddle and oars when Armstrong and I tried a few practice manoeuvres. The Captain sat on his bedding roll in the stern, plying...

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