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Show 258 in as short time as we could. " Q. When you not to the mouth of the Green River what did you do there? A. We proceeded to go up what they called the Grand River at what time, it is now the Colorado River, I gues you all understand that: we proceeded to go up the Grant River to Moab, and we felt pretty good about it until we had gone some - oh maybe three or four miles, I don't know just exactly what distance it is, before we encountered a big slide in the Grant Giver that our boat wasn't capable of making at all, but we was foolish enough to go into this slide where the water was pouring over, and the first thing we know, our boat was headed down the river, just turned us right around; we got into a big swirlpool where there was a great many trees and different sine timbers in this swirlpool, we got into that, it turned us around - I know it turned us around once, and I am not sure but more; anyhow, we finally got out of this swirlpool and went into the bank, into the rocks with the bow of the boat; that was on the bank of the river." * R. 669- 670* " Q. All right, then where did you go, after you hit into the bank? " A. We was fortunate enough to get off the boat and tie it up there, and we stayed there - I am not sure that we stayed all day, but we there quite a while, and tried to figure out some plan whereby we might get |