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Show Baldwin- D 1167 A Not necessarily, no: it is all guess work. The best way I could tell would be to get our and climb on top of the cabin and look ahead and see which way the most water is going, and say, " well, looks like it is going here, because it is wider"; get into it, and the first thing we know, we are stuck. If the other course, here the river has divided -- probably be deeper and not so wide, -- when we get stuck -- the back of the boat always strikes first, then swings around on us, because we are stuck, and we loss control of the boat, and time and again swing the wrong way and get stuck worse. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q You are describing this big boat's operation, are you? A This is the big boat. So we always have a small boat along with us. We will get out in it and feel around and see which way to go; so sometimes we don't go then until we take a line ashore and pull the boat the way we want to go and get into deeper water again, and probably go on all right for a good while. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q Did you have more trouble in the operation of that boat at high or at low water? A Had more trouble at low water. Q Why was that, Mr. Baldwin? A Because there wasn't sufficient water in the river to float 3139 |