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Show 1007 " He told me it was way back up here ( indicating). " I still think he clumb out of the river there; the water was still dropping off his clothes. " We spent two days going up and down the river trying to get some clue or some sight of his boat, - there was so much in the boat. We couldn't. Then, on the third day, I cooked quite a sack of biscuits, and we took a pair of cars and a hammer, and started up the river. [ R. 2380.] " We was on the east side; we had to cross to the west side. By the way, my boat was tied along that rapid. There is a side wash to those big rapids; every time the wash would come up, it would throw a little water in my boat; incidentally, it would carry a little sand along with it; so my boat became full of sand, and sunk, and I tried to get Russell to help me get it out. " He wouldn't turn his hand. You know, when we started back up the river we stopped at the big drift and carried lumber down out of the drift and made a raft. He was to use an car on one end of the raft, and me an car on the other end, and we could go across nicely. " When I pushed that off into the river he turned as white as a piece of paper. He had his camera with him, and this sack of biscuits. He sat there. I had to do the best I could. " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q. How did you go up the river? " A. Walked. " Q. Walk along the bank? " A. Yes; the reason we had to cross - one reason was because we became ledged on this side and had to walk out. You can walk on one side or the other of the river clear |