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Abstract Testimony, V 1, p. 0668

( oxplorations exploratimis ) ; that was ( witli with ) ( 60S 608 ) relation to the visit ( of of- of ) ( Cordcnas Cordenas ) , believed to be the first white ( mau man ) who had seen the Grand Canyon . That narrative has been in existance a long time , and has been ( pub- pub ) lished ( and alid ) republished . Does not know where the ( original origilial ) is . ( R . 2566 . ) It was after that ( prepara prepara- prepara ) ¬ tion that he wrote the book concerning the history and exploration . I The part concerning the later chapters ( he lie ) gained from his contact ( with vith ) various parties of the ( Geolog Geolog- Geolog ) ical Survey , and other engineers with ( whom whoin ) he had voyaged on the river . ( R . 2566 . ) In his investigation of the Colorado river he found that the Indians in and about the Colorado river never used the river for transportation , ( ex- ex ) cept ( 011 on ) the lower river below the Grand Canyon , where they always did boat , and do to this day . On the upper river there was no evidence they had ever boated the way the Indians have on the other rivers where the explorers used them . In ( Powell's Powells ) investigation in preparation for his voyage , that point came up clearly in his endeavor to find boatmen among the ( Indians Iiidians ) . No one could tell him anything about the ( river rjiver ) . He ( was -Ni7as Ni7as ) ( com- com ) pletely in the dark . That ( was -was was ) one of the things that always made his voyage an epic of exploration . He dove into ( tEe the ) dark in entering the canyons of the Colorado . The only ( known 1cnown ) white man on the Lewis and Clark voyage was a ( half-breed halfbreed balf-breed balfbreed ) ( French-Canadian FrenchCanadian ) .