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Show Record 1587 Major Powell sat on the middle cabin of our boat in an arm chair, his chair being strapped on to the boat so that he could see ahead and give orders as to which oars we should pull in order to get the boat into any particular position. The photo-graphs contained in my books Exhibit 13 and 14 were taken by our photographer on my first trip. I knew Robert Brewster Stanton and the field notes of his trip down the Colorado River and his survey of a railroad down the canyons are in the New York Public Library, 1588 where I persuaded his widow to permit me to deposit them. Mr. Stanton always told me that they were the field notes of his expedition. Major Powell had only one arm. In response to interrogatories propounded by the Special Master, Mr. Dellenbaugh testified as follows: 1589 With reference to my testimony that our boats had to be decked over to prevent their being filled with water and that on several occasions they were so filled, the only place below Green River, Utah, where our boats were filled with water was in Cataract Canyon. The only other place where you might ship some water would be at the rapid I have mentioned in Glen Canyon, but 1590 I don't think we shipped any water there. I do not recall seeing any sand waves but our boats were sturdy and we would not mind sand waves. I suppose we had a thousand or twelve hundred pounds of supplies in each of our boats after we left Green River, Utah. On my first trip we left a boat at the mouth of the Dirty Devil 1591 for our use the following year. We loaded all our supplies into our two remaining boats, so that these two boats from the Dirty Devil River down to Lee's Ferry were more heavily loaded than when they traveled between Green River, Utah, and the mouth of the Dirty 1592 Devil ( Fremont River). The next year the river rose " phenomenally", so that the water washed the sand from under the keel of the boat we had left at the Dirty Devil at a point not more than twenty 1593 feet above the ordinary stage of water. In Glen Canyon there are |