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Show 643 understood some Indians we met; they wouldn't go with us, but they gave us directions. " We misunderstood the directions, and we got terribly tangled up in that maze of canyons." R. 1547- 1548. The distance from Lees Ferry, Arizona, to Kanab over-land, is a little less than one hundred miles, and from Kanab to the mouth of the Dirty Devil River, in the way you have to go, must be one- hundred and fifty or two- hun-dred miles. R. 1548. " Q. Why didn't you go back to Lees Ferry and go up the river in a boat? " A. You couldn't. " Q. Why not, Mr. Dellenbaugh? " A. It is almost impossible to go up the river in a boat. " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q. In the boats you had? " A. In any boat. Dave Rust came down the river, he had canvas boats -- " MR. FARESWORTH: Let him tell about that. " A. You can't go." R. 1549. " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " You intend your reply to mean that in your opinion you could not go up the river at that time of year with those boats that you used? " A. Yes. " Q. Your opinion is you could not? " A. You could not. " THE SPECIAL MASTER: The record will be confined to that." R. 1550. |
