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Show 5477 BY MR. BLACKMAR: reference to the loss of that boat. I wish you would tell me about that, please. A That was some little ways below the south of the San Juan; we were going down, we met a very hard head- wind going up the river, and it was so hard, and blowing such high waves, upper end of the Big Bottom, -- perhaps two miles or two and a half miles above the moth of Aztec canyon, what some known as Rainbow bridge canyon. During the night we tied our boats up; during the night we always had been very alert to any unusual sound, where-ver I am, when I am out that way. The boats had been thump-ing together all the time from the wind. went out to the willows; we had gone into the willows for protection from the wind. The big boat was gone; it had come loose. I told the boys to hurry down the bank --- we were on |