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Show ( t' t ) k . . . ' urMr a iMfa * ( -U''T' UT ) . * ftt * Ajt * S * * iJ * . 1 10G5 should not have had because ( there fliere ) was plenty of good water at that time . ' He made a trip down the river to ( Valentine's Valentines ) Bottom in Captain ( Yokey's Yokeys ) , boat , called the Black Eagle . Before they reached there they blew out some water tubes in the boiler and had quite a bit of other trouble . The draft of the boat was too deep and the power ( insufficient insuffic'ient insufficient ) . The boat had a draft of about twelve inches with a very light load ( con- con ) sisting of a little wood , bedding , and camp equipment . To his knowledge the Black Eagle was never brought back to Greenriver . ( R . 4223-4224 . ) Another boat they had on the river was known as ( Oppenheimer's Oppenheimers ) boat . This boat was ( twenty-seven twentyseven ) feet long , six and a half feet abeam , and was equipped with a ( fourteen-horsepower fourteenhorsepower ) gas engine , stern paddle wheel , and drew about eight inches of water . It had no name ( going croing ) downstream but coming back it ( was wa-s was ) named the Paddy Ross , in honor of his wife , Mrs . Ross . On the trip down they went as far as the head of the cataracts . They were himg up on sand bars I but the boat was light and easy to handle . On the trip down there were four men besides the women , and three men on the return trip , Mr . Woodruff , who owned some bottom lands about sixty miles below Greenriver , not having ( returned ret-urned returned ) on the up trip . ( R . 4225 . ) Supplies for the winter for Mr . Woodruff and his sister , who stopped at his place down the river , were taken in on this trip . ( R . 4226 . ) |
