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Show 4561 Freeman- D 2580 that from the notation in my diary; at Crossing of the fathers, which was forty miles, we had averaged ten miles a day, which means that we had made a better speed on the last two days than on the first two. Shortly after the passing of the storm we were in trouble again. I remember particularly Bill Jones trying to find what he thought was an open channel up to a series of sandbars. Getting up into it, finding there was no outlet, he endeavored to lighten his boat by lifting out his load so the craft could be dragged down through; then he piled the stuff up on the sand, only to find his bout floating back. He remained with his cargo while his boat went adrift. We recovered that for him, and he had to retrace his course somewhat to get a better channel. We were like a herd of cows, in a why, going through, one would go ahead and then another. Mr. Wimmer, being rather more familiar with the river, and I think a little better hand with the outboards, would usually get away from us, then he would come back to help some one along. I remember at this trip I got ahead, and endeavored to make a landing on the bank, and slipped. My boat went out under me; I chased it in the water; I landed a bar; the boat went by; I ran down to try to get ahead, and caught |