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Show His ( wife -wife wife ) was an ( Indian Lidian ) 669 by the name of ( Sacajawea Sacajaweal ) of the tribe living between the headwaters of the Jefferson fork of the Missouri and the ( Snake Suake ) , where the drainage of the Missouri meets the drainage of the Columbia . The principal use of this woman was as ( an ail ) interpreter , though her personal ( knowl knowl- knowl ) edge of the region near her home on the ( continental -coutinental coutinental ) divide was of considerable value to the expedition . ( R . 2571 . ) In August and September , 1922 , he personally made a trip ( on oil ) the Colorado River from Lees ( Perry Ferry ) , Arizona , to ( HaHs Halls ) Crossing within the state of Utah . He was first asked to join the party , and he requested instead that he be allowed to become a boatman on the trip going both up and down the river . That arrangement was made . For that reason he was a boatman on the party that went up , and later on the return trip . ( R . ( 2572 20-72 ) . ) Four boats of the skiff type were ( used u-sed used ) ; does ( not -not not ) recall measuring them ; always spoke of them as ( eighteen-foot eighteenfoot ) boats ; that is within a few inches of their exact dimensions ; very broad skiff square stern ; originally very stoutly built , with some oak framing . Remembers there ( was -was was ) an oak stem or bow , and had been used one or two seasons . They were built ( and aud ) owned by the Southern California Edison Company , borrowed by the survey at this time . ( R . 2572-2573 . ) The draft would depend entirely upon the amount of the load . With the cargo that they carried ( up-they upthey ) were very heavily |