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Show Lumsden- D 669 night on down the river. A It seems to me, the best of my recollection, we was about five days getting down to the mouth of the river, the mouth of the Green river; we may have been more than that, but that is as near as I can recall it. We encountered a great many obstacles; there was rock in the river that fortunately showed up so we could see them, and we didn't jamb into these rocks in the Green river. However, we had to pick our course from time to time, and sometimes we was in brush, and sometimes we was rubbing the rock on the side. It was anything but a pleasant trip for what we called the maiden trip. Q You got on other sandbars between the San Rafael and the mouth of the Green river? A We did. Q Did you get off of those sandbars the same way that you have detailed here? A Yes, a good deal so; some of them weren't so bad as the first one we encountered; we must have spent three- quarters of a day getting off that first sandbar. Q Did you have any other experience with sandbars where it took you several days to get off -- I mean several hours? A I don't recall, going down, that we had many hours spent in that. I think we did have, though -- however, it is only the best of my memory -- that we were hung up several times maybe for two or three hours, maybe an hour, as the case might be; 2637 |