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Show 5656 Shaw- D 3663 106 A Yes, sir, we tried to get as securer and safe a place as possible. There were occasions when, during the night, while precaution was taken as much as possible, the sand would wear away or build up around the boats, occasionally. The sand was very shifting, of course, and at different stages in the water, except at high water, we did not know what to ex-pect, and we were either settled into a bar, or it would move and dissolve very quickly. Often times it would move in the night, there would be an abutment of the bar that would dis-solve away very quietly until, possibly, the other portion of it would break away. But there was no rule or regulation to go by. It was simply just doing the best we could. Q How far up the river did you go on the return trip? A The Green or the Grand. Q So; I am talking about the return trip, when you were talking the outfit out? A I remember four or five miles in the Green River; three or four it might have been. Q What had become of the rest of the party? A I remember the heavier equipment was left at Wimmer's Ranch, there to be freighted out. Some of the personal supplies and the men, I think, came up in the smaller boats. |