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Show 5479 come with me. And I took them down and showed them our find. We put the flour back, fastened the platform up, put six of the sacks back and took one sack. We thought we were en-titled to that much by saving the flour. In that way we decided it would be safe for us to go on the Lees Ferry. Q Did you ever recover that boat? A Yes Sir. We went down about a mile and a half around the next bend, below the lover and of this bend, and we had decided we would continue our prospecting, having that such flour, and go through to Lees Ferry. We got out, and I went down the river a ways, hap-pened to look back up, and I saw the boat stranded on a sand-bar, submerged sandbar. Q Where was this sandbar? A This was in the river, in the Colorado river, down possibly three miles below our camp, about a mile and a half below the lower end of this bottom. Q Was it in the river, in the middle of the river, or on the side? A It was more to one side, to the east side. The wind |