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Show ( Ho He ) ( was -was was ) away ( frorn from ) Lees 500 ( Perry Ferry ) three nights , as while it only ( took toolc ) him two and a half days to go upsteam , they ( didn't didnt ) start back until the morning of the third day . He estimated that he ( had bad ) about two gallons of gas when he ( turned turiied ) around to come back and used what he had on the return trip . He knew he ( couldn't couldnt ) have gone up any farther with that amount of gasoline . ( ( E R ) . 1741-1742 . ) What they were figuring on doing when they left there was go as far as could with our gas , and then when had to turn around and come back come back with , the current ; ( didn't didnt ) necessarily have to have the gas to come back on . He made several trips upstream above Lees Ferry with an outboard motor , never any more with the boat equipped with the Ford engine . He was experimenting with the outboard motor within a radius of about six miles of Lees Ferry . He never went down below Lees Ferry , nor did he ever take any passengers , camp outfit , or food with him on these short trips . In fact , he never left Lees Ferry with the second boat except with the intention of running up the river a little and ( re- re ) turning to camp . ( R . 1744 . ) He wanted to see . how powerful his motor was going upstream . ( ( K R ) . 1745 . ) He had a ( two-cylinder twocylinder ) , eight horsepower , ( John John- John ) son Outboard Motor in this little boat and his ( ex- ex ) perience with the Ford motor and this eight ( horse horse- horse ) power motor is all of his ( motor-boat motorboat ) experience on |