Show 121 placed in the boat with the blankets spy glass thermometer and barometer a sextant telescope and the trip to the nearest island begun After pulling the boat through about a mile of shallow water and mud at the mouth of the river water deep enough to float the craft was reached and the men climbed aboard the water attained sufficient depth that bottom could not be touched with the oars all the old myths concerning whirlpools and currents began to cause uneasiness When among the five men When about half way across "two of the divisions between cylinders gave way and it required the con stant use of the bellows to keep in a sufficient quantity of air"11 This condition together with the great swells and To be thrown white caps of the lake caused great uneasiness unexpectedly into the briny waters might easily result in death as Stansbury testified seven years later 12 After several hours of hard rowing the party reached the island about noon and ascended to the top From this position 800 feet above the surface of the lake Fremont made a survey of it and its islands and drew a map which is as accurate as could be expected being drawn from one Report of Exploring Expedition 156 12 Howard Stansbury Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake 212 11 Fremont |