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Show If you did not ( have ha-ve have ) ( something somet1iing ) ( 83G 836 ) to ( know Imow ) where you ( were -were were ) stepping , you might step right in . An oar would go down four or ( fire five ) feet in some places . These cracks would be two or three feet wide . ( R . 3237-3238 . ) At this point the entire river spreads ( out oiit ) and he could not find any regular channel through there , and outside of the deep places in these ( cracks crachs ) he did not believe that the ( water witer ) was ( over -over over ) two feet deep . The river at this point might possibly be 500 feet wide , and ( after afet-er afeter ) he got out forty or fifty feet from either shore ( he be ) did not find much difference in the water , wading across and ( shoving sboving ) the boat , and trying to work it over . ( R . ( 3238-3239 '3238-3239 ) . ) He found ( very very- very ) little difference ( out- out ) side of the places that he could put an oar down its full length , and ( he lie ) kept working the boat ( farther further ) down , shoving it along on its keel . The ( water 'water water ) was ( very -NTery NTery ) low . ( R . 3239 . ) Redirect examination ( R . Vol . 17 , pp . 3239- 3240 ) : During the time he was on the Colorado River the floods ( Avould would ) occur in the latter part of July or August ( , . ) This was outside of the spring rise . ( Most klost ) of these floods would be local from cloudbursts in the mountains . Three or four of them came from the San Rafael , and you could generally tell ( hy by ) the color of the water where they came from . The storms would sometimes extend until ( Septem Septem- Septem ) ( ber beT ) or October , and after the storms there ( would -would would ) sometimes be a rearrangement or change of the ( sand -sand sand ) bars . At other times there would not ( , . ) The |
