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Show 4162 McDonald- D 2182 there? A Yes, Dan Hite and Homer was there then; there was only Cass and Johnnie there before. Q Now bring this expedition on down to Less Ferry. A Mr. Stanton wouldn't travel on Sunday, and they laid up just above the mouth -- Saturday night, -- just above the mouth of Escalante; Escalante is about twelve miles above the mouth of the San Juan. Mr. Brown and I and Reynolds got into the boat Sunday morning and came on down; we slept all night;-- Mr. Stanton, we knew, wouldn't come-- and we couldn't get back up; we slept all night, by gracious, on a bar, laid right on a sandbar, no blankets, no nothing, all night long. Just as the sun was getting up Mr. Stanton and them come along, then we piled in, and Mr. Brown had them make a landing, and we ate a little breakfast; hadn't had anything from the day before, when we started. We thought we would go back up the river, and we couldn't get back up the river there. That is the reason we had slept out on the bar all night. Q Why couldn't you get back up the river? A It was too swift; we couldn't pull up along the edges, because there was no shore line there. BY MR. FARNSWORTH: Q At what point of the river was that? |