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Show 80 -- 76-- of habitation along that road, or any irrigated tract. At the mouth of the San Rafael there is this ranch - well, it might be called a ranch; there is no irrigated land, no farm land of any kind there; it is just simply a shack, probably used more or less for grazing headquarters." R. 181. " At that point, we tried to get to the river with the motorboat, and went along the north bank of the San Rafael River for, possibly, a quarter of a mile before we got stuck in the sand. and we then knew that it was impossible to launch the motorboat in the river at any point. " By the special Master" " Q When you speak of the motorboat, do you mean with an outboard motor? " A No, the one I speak of as the motorboat is the one they brought over [ from Moab] with the canoe. " By Mr. Farnsworth: " Q It is the big boat? " A It is the big boat. So we decided right then and there that we would take the canoe they brought with them; I do not know why they brought the canoe with them; it was just luck that they did. The canoe was a canvas- covered canoe, 15 1/ 2 feet long. " By Mr. Blackmar: " Q One of those canoes that they call the " Peterborough?" " A Yes; it was not the main type of canoe; I do not know what you call it; it had a safety device on the outside. |