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Show R . 5119 . ) Altogether lie 1307 probably saw eight or ten of these rafts . He has also seen Billy Brown and a fellow named Welsh , who owned ranches on the Colorado River , , twelve or fifteen miles above Moab , come down the river in their boats , but ( he lie ) never saw them go up . . He does not know what became of their boats after they brought them down , but he has seen the boats left on the river after they came down . ( ( R It ) . 5120 . ) He has seen the boats tied up at the ferry before the bridge was built and up the river along the bank at their homes . He ( couldn't couldnt ) say whether they were the same or ( different diffetent ) boats , but he supposed them to be the same . He made a trip on the Undine , the purpose of which was to go from Moab to the Cisco pumps . ( R . 5121 . ) That is the only trip he made on the boat ; they did not get to Cisco on that trip , but did get up ten or twelve miles above Moab , turned around and came back down . When he left the Undine was tied up at the ferry [ at Moab ] . She ( didn't didnt ) get up to Cisco . She went about ten or twelve miles above Moab , and then turned around and came back . They came up there to one of those ( V-shaped Vshaped ) riffles , and we ran the line out over it , tied it to a big rock up over the riffle , then came back and got on the boat and proceeded to go up over the stream , and the boat was carried into the swift water faster than the capstan engine would take the rope up , the boat , when it struck that current , |