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Show 466 " We started up the Green, and hadn't gone more than about a quarter of a mile. I would say, and we got stuck; the propeller and the guards struck the sand; consequently the boat soon turned around with us. " We thought we would try it another place. We tried it four times, I think. " Finally one of the boys got out with hip boots on, or boots that came up around his waist, and poled it up stream, let it dig its way through; got through that one; went on probably half a mile, or a mile and a half, that same thing over again, only worse. " So it began to get towards night, we discovered we had only gone about five miles in five hours. That is as far as we went. We turned around and came back." R. 1189- 1190 After having all of this trouble it was decided it would take too long to get up the river. He has taken the Evinrude boat and the passenger boat about three miles above Moab on the Colorado River to Nigger Sill. From there on there are riffles and rocks in the stream. It would be foolish to attempt to get above Nigger Sill. in his opinion, because the propellers would be broken on big boulders. R. 1191. These trips were made at different times but he doesn't remember the times of year. He doesn't know of any other supplies or merchandise of importance being transferred on the Colorado |