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Show 183 We put an the canoe in the San Rafeal River with our supplies, and five men tried to drag that canoe down the San Rafael River. There were places where there would be plenty of water, and there were places where there would be half an inch. We had gone half a mile when we found that it would be impossible to drag all the supplies down. So we put half on the bank, and started to drag the canoe with the other half; and before we got through we took all the supplies out of the canoe and dragged the empty canoe down the San Rafael, and planted our supplies on the until we got to the mouth of the San Rafael. Q That is where you camped and left the other boat? A That is where we camped and left the other boat there the Sunday before we went to Greenriver. So the next morning -- on Wednesday morning, we had these two boats, a canoe which drew maybe three or four inches of water when I was in it, with about one- third of the supplies, and a rowboat. And we sent Virgil Baldwin with a truck back to Greenriver, and arranged that he was to meet us at the junction the following week with our outboard motor and gasoline and extra supplies. Q Then, you started from the mouth of the San Rafael, and which boat did you travel in? A I traveled in the canoe, and Mr. Blake, the boatman, handled the larger boat, because it had more draft, and he is an expert boatman, as I think any one in that country will recognize. 2146 |
