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pages 370-image

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026hp http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,830
Title pages 370-image
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-24
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 the mudflats, but thought it might be worth trying in preference to pushing on in the dark to Hood River. Those imps of darkness were right about the difficulty of reaching Moosier after nightfall. A small river coming in at that point seemed to have deposited a huge bar of quicksand all along the left bank, and I would never have been able to make a landing at all had not a belated duck-hunter given me a hand. After tying up to an oar, he very courteously undertook to pilot me to the town...

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