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Show ( believe 1jelieve ) ( the flic ) boat was over ( 1125 11.25 ) fourteen or fifteen feet long and about ( live fi-Nre fiNre ) feet wide . The boat lie and ( his Iiis ) ( partner partuer ) used ( on oil ) his trip was about fourteen , feet long and four and a half feet wide . ( The 'Plic Plic ) three parties that passed ( him lihn ) at Copper ( Can Can- Can ) ( yon 3-on 3on ) were in small rowboats that looked like his . ( The Tlie ) time ( he lie ) sold the supplies from the store to the men going down the river , ( he lie ) ( doesn't doesnt ) believe ( there tbere ) was over one hundred pounds of stuff , coffee , bacon , and sugar , and the ( men nien ) said they ( were Nvere ) placer miners , but ( he lie ) ( doesn't doesnt ) know where they went . While ( he lie ) lived at Bluff ( he lie ) did not see other boats that were made there and taken to the river . ( R . 4482 . ) He saw two boats come in on trucks and ( he lie ) was told they were going to take the river at Sand Island . They passed ( through tbrough ) Bluff and he saw them , but ( he lie ) ( doesn't doesnt ) know where they went . There was a boy from Bluff , Hugh Hyde , ( who -who who ) went with them . He believes it was a Government party , but ( he lie ) ( doesn't doesnt ) know where they went . He never saw them after that . ( R . 4483 . ) In the portion of the journey ( he lie ) made ( on oil ) the river from Bluff to Copper Canyon he ( had bad ) no difficulties to speak of . He was stuck a couple of ( times tinies ) ( on oil ) ( sand saud ) bars , but he tried to keep in the deepest ( chan chaii- chaii ) nel and avoid all the sand bars he could , and he has no recollection of more than two occasions when he got onto one . ( On Oil ) this trip he carried two ( months' months ) supplies with him and believes the whole outfit |