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Show 916 pulled it along the edge, and one of us kept prying it off, warding it off from the edge of the rocks, and finally Mid says, ' You are crazy, Mac'. " I says, ' All right, if none of you fellows get in, I will show you something'. " So I shoved the boat in, when we got up where it wouldn't go any further, - I shipped quite a bit of water. I was in there alone, and just using one stay oar no other oars, let the current take me along. " When I came out below, he says, ' You are crazy, damn fool, damn fool.' He says, ' You will drown'. " That is as far as we went up Cataract canyon with the boat.: R. 2168- 2169. " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q You didn't drown, did you? " A No, i didn't drown. They bet me five gallons of whiskey, after Mr. Brown was drowned, when we was in town there, if I went the second trip I would drown. " I bet the, and used the whiskey before I started." R. 2169. When he got through down in Glen Canyon he went out with wagons and on horseback; " you could get a wagon in and out from Case Hite; we finally got a wagon in down North Wash." R. 2170. There were no other boats on the river in Glen Canyon while he was prospecting and besides the men who were prospecting with him, another outfit known as Hite's outfit was prospecting down the river about three miles. There were no dredges or other machinery operating on the river at that time. R. 2170. |