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Show For ( twenty-nine twentynine ) years 484 she has had considerable ( 'contact contact -contact contact ) with , the Navajo Indians , has made a ( study Andy ) ( of -of of ) their lives and habits , and during all of that ( lime -time time ) she has never seen the Indians use boats to ( travel -travel travel ) ( on ou ) the river . ( R . 1667-1668 . ) ( Gross-examination Grossexamination Cross-examination Crossexamination ) ( R . Vol . 9 , pp . 1668- 1673 ) : The year following the one when the river was , dry , she saw it at Bloomfield and about six miles ( below 'bielow bielow ) Shiprock , when it was only three or four feet wide . ( R . ( 1668-1669 3.668-1669 ) . ) It was very low ; then the next year she crossed it again , it was very low . ( R 1669 . ) She believes that during the low ( water -water water ) the ( chan eban- eban ) ¬ nel ( wasn't wasnt ) over three or four feet wide and not over a foot deep ; she ( doesn't doesnt ) think it was as ( mucli much ) as fourteen inches deep , and the time it was ( com- com ) pletely dry and this low stage , was the lowest she has ever seen the San Juan river . ( R . 1670 . ) When it ( was -was was ) dry it was absolutely dry , just as dry as ( the -the the ) floor , and the other time when she saw it extremely low , the only place there was any water was right in the middle of the stream , the river bed , and it was three or four feet wide and the only other ( water -water water ) in the river bed was perhaps a few little pools standing around . ( R . 1671 . ) These low stages of the river were in 1902 and 1903 . The time she saw the river very low , about a foot deep in the channel , was above Farmington , New ( Mex Mex- Mex ) ico not below . She knows that down below ( Farm- Farm ) , |