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Show 723 The man [ Bob Marshall] who accompanied him wasn't a pay passenger. He estimates that they carried about two hundred- fifty pounds of sup-plies consisting of bed roll, provisions and gasoline. He doesn't know how much gasoline he had, although he had a tank that held ten or eleven ballons he believes, and had ten or fifteen gal-lons in a can. R. 1739. He doesn't recall just how much food they had along, but enough to last about a week. When he turned around to come back, he had about two gal-lons of gasoline left, and on the up trip he didn't go to any points of interest, just looked for the easiest way to get up. R. 1740. He was away from Lees Ferry three nights, as while it only took him two and a half days to go upstream, they didn't start back until the morning of the third day. He estimated that he had about two gallons of gas when he turned around to come back and used what he had on the return trip. He knew he couldn't have gone up any further with that amount of gaso-line. R. 1741- 1742. " Q. And that is why you turned around and came back, is it? " A. Not necessarily. " Q. Not necessarily? wasn't it necessarily? " A. What we was figuring on doing when we left there was go as far as we could with our gas, and then when we had to turn around and come back, come back with the current; we didn't necessarily have to have the gas to come back on. " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q. You couldn't have got much further upstream with two |