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Show 1082 below the Grand Canyon, where they always did boat, and to this day. " On the upper river there was no evidence they had ever boated the way the Indians have on the other rivers where the explorers used them. " May I add, in Powell's investigation in preparation for his voyage, that point came up clearly in his endeavor to find boatman among the Indians. No one could tell him anything about the river. He was completely in the dark. That was one of the things that always made his voyage an epic of exploration. He dove into the dark in entering the canyons the Colorado. " Q. Do you recall whether or not the Lewis and Clark expedition to the went used Indian guides? " A. The only known white man on the voyage was a half- brace French- Canadian. His wife was an Indian by the name of Sacajawea, of the tribe living between the head- waters of the Jefferson fork of the Missouri and the Snake, where the drainage of the Missouri meets the drainage of the Columbia. " The principal use of this woman was as an interpreter, though her personal knowledge of the region near her home on the continental divide was of considerable value to the expedition." R. 2571 In August and September, 1922, he personally made a trip on the Colorado River from Lee's Ferry, Arizona to Hall's Crossing within the state of Utah. |