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Show 5928 376 3934 the curve there. When we went back, we followed that, and we pretty noon found that we could not go ahead, because of this mass of debris that had come in from Courthouse Wash during our absence; and we went a lot of time there trying to find our way out. As I recall it now, I waded practically the width of the river, and we finally decided that we had better go back and try to come up along the left bank, which we did. We found enough water there near the left bank to finally get up. It is very deeply impressed on my memory now, because there was a very heavy storm up in the head of Courthouse Wash, and we were expecting to have rain fall on us, and if we get stuck out there, possibly we would get caught In another rush of water. It took us at least half an hour to get free and get past the obstruction. Q After you got to the leading near Moab, what did you do with your boat? A Turned it up at the dock, where we had permission to keep it, took the engine off and put it in the care of the man who lived near the dock; I do not recall his name; he had a house where it could be locked up. The boat was |