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Show 834 " A. Better. " Q. To what extent were you difficulties due to lack of horsepower? " A. Current of the river was the principal trouble. " Q. If you had had sufficient horsepower you could have overcome that could you? " A. We could have overcome that, of course. " Q. To what extent are these signs of ancient Indian habitations along the Green and the Colorado rivers? " A. We saw signs of them the entire journey from Green-river to the mouth of the Grand wash opening out to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. " Q. Were they signs of what is known as the cliff dweller Indians? " A. Yes, that is what they claim. " Q. When you say signs, what did you see,-- I mean in general? " A. We found their houses, their granaries, where they stored their food. We found corn, found the remains of their houses. In those we found corn tassels, the tops of corn that had been wrapped up with a willow the and stored, I suppose, for goat feed. " Found bones from animals; utensils that they used one way or the other. " Q. And traces of those Indian cliff dwelling inhabitants you found on the Green river and all the way down the Colorado? " A. And on the Colorado; a good many of the places they were in the side canyons that opened in on to the river; Game |