Outing . presence of the dam was indicated by theboat ramming into it head on. LakePepin brought heavy weather, althoughnot so bad as that encountered on LakeWinnibigishosh above, where he struck 238 OUTING the heaviest sea he ever faced in an openboat and was nine hours pulling thirteenmiles. Two hundred miles above Keokuk hebegan to feel the effect of the back cur-rent from the great dam at Keokuk, andcoming down to St. Louis he pulledtwenty-six hours straight without sleep,resting only while eating. This account-ed for 106 miles of distance. His strong-est current was found south of the mou
Outing . presence of the dam was indicated by theboat ramming into it head on. LakePepin brought heavy weather, althoughnot so bad as that encountered on LakeWinnibigishosh above, where he struck 238 OUTING the heaviest sea he ever faced in an openboat and was nine hours pulling thirteenmiles. Two hundred miles above Keokuk hebegan to feel the effect of the back cur-rent from the great dam at Keokuk, andcoming down to St. Louis he pulledtwenty-six hours straight without sleep,resting only while eating. This account-ed for 106 miles of distance. His strong-est current was found south of the mouth miles throughout the trip and of 57 perday. According to the Government sur-vey, the distance covered was 2,567 Koehn claims for his boat, theItasca, the distinction of being the onlycraft of any description to make the en-tire trip and for himself that of being theonly man to row the whole distance. Heconcludes, I do not believe my recordwill ever be beaten. Mr. Koehns best time for one days. ?*6* J*>-*-^-~ m*- u
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