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No. .,, - ,,,.. - t 44100., I. , ,. . b ,,., ,t,...k m - 1 á 1 ,. .; . ,,,0 , 4 e .ft - .40- . 4 ..0f.' t'''' . lb "Nth a.,...... , 41 7 ' 44.. ,., ; 4 V,:t ' - (- ' ...a .. ,.,- - , .4. Ap . ,tiii .... ' ' .' ;',,,,J.-.--.-: - ', ''' ; . '' i.t- yo ) J-- - . T' (I , . W. CANNON friends. the Mayes family from San Leandro, Cal ifornia: Thorn. and Lygia, Thorn Junior, and young daughter. Dianne. The others were Mary 'Ogden Abbott of Concord. Massachusetts; Ralph Youngberg and Joseph Sze Ito Lockheed Aircraft engineers, California; Douglas Denny, Southern Pacific official from El Paso, Texas; Max Krueger, engineer with Union Oil Co. from Wyoming. Thus five, states were represented. Norman is an excellent mixer. Slender and t he. is quick sunburned, not tall, but of movement, dramatic and humorous la conversation, and born storyteller. His dynamic personality vibrates throtIgh a room, almost with an audible, singing timbre. He showed pictures, gave instructions. and asked Us to call each other by our 4, . "And why not?" "Because a week of going down the San Juan and Colorado Rivers In a rowboat is rugged." "And aren't there side trips where you have to climb?" . I saw that I must stand my ground. I answered. "I had a dugout canoe ride on an alligator's back once in the Magdalena, and I've climbed Timpanogos and the Pyramid." "But you were young then." Convincing my sons that I was of an age and sex to join a Norman Nevills expedition was dif- ficult, though they gave. me their blessing when they learned that my passage was already engaged and I could not be dissuaded from going. We started from - Mexican Hat, way down in the tip of aouthPastPrn Utah, a spot of desert, cut through by the San Juan, and named from a cliff sombrero. formation that resembles an upside-dow- n On one side of the river is Norman Nevins' houle, with a few other, buildings; on the other side Is. the lodge, his mother's home. - , " tough-fibere- ed - semi-catara- ' NEVIS bAAGAZINI . twelve-year-ol- , ' ,, ' ct g full-catara- ct ON A summer evening, Norman held a briefing session for our party. Doris, his wife, and d their daughter Joan were to be on this trip, together with the Neville Passengers i - ''''' d, ; given names. Next morling we drove down a long incline to the shore where four of the famous Nevills boats were moored, bobbing gently up and down in the riverwash. The type (for the lower Colorado) are narrower and pointed. These boats have no awnings or covers; both ends are square and have decks, with storage compartments beneath. 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