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pages 378-379

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026hu http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,834
Title pages 378-379
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-24
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Description chamber. The Oregon side of the river was thick with rocks right away round the bend, with not enough clear water to permit the passage of even a skiff. My course, therefore, would have to be the same as that of the steamer—just as sharply across to the opposite side as oars would take me. I had put Imshallah through worse water than that a score of times, and, while it wasn't the sort of a place where one would want to break an oar or even catch a "crab," there was no reason to believe...

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