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Show iwo , ( weeks weeIcs ) , , ( leaving leavihig ) , threenion to eadh ( boat'not boatnot ) ( in- in ) ( cluding eluding ) ( Major Alajor ) Powell , who sat on the middle cabin of our boat . ( Captain aaptain ) Francis M . Bishop , of Salt Lake City , who is ( eighty-seven eightyseven ) years old , is the only other living survivor of the Powell Expedition . . CR 1518-1519 . ) The boats were made in Chicago and ( wer4,1wall wer41wall ) ( constructed eonstructed ) of ( one-half onehalf ) inch oak , ( double-ribbacl doubleribbacl ) ( fore lore ) and aft ( and aud ) very strong , as a boat has W be - which goes down the Colorado . ( R . 1519 . ) They had rubber life preservers ; they ( waueu't waueut ) very good . They were in the way whenwe rowed . ( Sut nut ) they ( were iere ) carried , a life preserver Of the oX ( sausage salisage ) type , the only thing we could gat at that ( time 'time time ) . ( To-day Today ) the men all use a neiverIcind , liko & jacket , which buttons on . ( Mr M11r ) . ( Staiiton Stanton ) always ( in- in ) sisted on the ( men inen ) wearing their life ( preservers pr4emnlren ) every time they went ( on oil ) the river . ( R . 1519 . ) This expedition left Green River , ( "Wyoming Wyoming ) , May 22 , 1871 , and except for a few sand bars which they rail on , was easily negotiated for eighty miles . . They then entered Flaming Gorge , the ( starting startilig ) of the ( canyon canyou ) region . The river is then canyoned for about one thousand ( miles ndles ) with the exception of ( Brown's Browns ) Park and the ( Uiiitah Uintah ) Basin . . Below Flaming Gorge , Red Canyon is entered , , . which is about ( twenty-five twentyfive ) miles long and very precipitous , , the fall , he believes , being , three hundred or four hundred feet in this ( twenty-five twentyfive ) miles . . |