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Show 1096 " Even the engine would fall for several hours at a time, and everyone would take the oars and keep the boat in the current and it would keep going. Sometimes it would be up against a cliff. There were occasional groundings on sandbars. The river was a little lower then." R. 2588- 2589 One unit of the boats was in charge or Andy Winmmer and the other in charge of Tom Wimmer. " I was with Mr. Wimmer on the down trip, and there were two other boatmen with Andy Wimmer. Tom and I had the running of the one craft. " One of the men had gone out from Hall's Crossing; there were only five. " Q. Was the down trip a continuous trip Lees Ferry, or did you stop? " A. I think something like a week was spent on the river. We made stops at the San Juan; we made the surveys which I have mentioned; there was a stop at Rainbow bridge, and another stop at Warm creek, where we crawled out to the mess and located one or two points on Father Escalante's route; also at the Hole- in- the- Rock, where the remarkable Mormon migration crossed, the point where the wheel vehicles were taken over the cliffs." R. 2589 There is a great deal of sand and silt below the San Juan because that river brings in a great amount of it. " Q. Did you encounter any sand waves either up or down the river?" R. 2590 " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER" " Q What is your definition of it? Describe what |