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Show 842 was one of his inducements, because he didn't take anybody but that could take care of themselves and work, and had to be husky and strong, and they were supposed to be swimmers, and good oarsmen, and so on." R. 1988. Mr. Kane heard the testimony given by Mr. Edwards, and he agreed with the description of the Stanton boats, and recalls nothing that was omitted that he would like to add to it. R. 1989. " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q. Will you describe, a little, the kind of weather it was. I think that has not been described by say witness. " A. No left Denver. I believe on the 28th day of November, and of course it was quite cold in that country, chilly, but when we got to Greenriver, a couple of days afterwards it was fairly good weather, lower elevation, and we were there for several days, packing up the boats and getting them on the wagon, and the first night out, the first camp cut, it was raining, and at night it snowed. " THE SPECIAL MASTER: Just a little louder. " A. In the morning there was a couple of inches of snow on the ground, but that thawed off during the day, or shortly afterwards, and we had fairly good -- nice weather from there on to the river. " Hauled our boats overland to Crescent wash, and the other was fairly good." R. 1989- 1990. They brought their boats by team right on the bank of the river, and just lifted them off the wagon into the water. The expedition left their camp on Crescent Creek on the sixth or tenth of December. He had a diary of the trip all the way through but |
