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Show He made boating trips 128 at ( all 611 ) seasons of the year . ( R . 465 . ) ( Made -'Made Made ) ( some sonic ) at low water , but it was too much work . ( R . 466 . ) The water was usually high in the spring along about June and in September and in October floods occurred ( that tbat ) caused high water . It generally took one day to make the trip ( from froin ) Bluff to ( Mexi- Mexi ) can Hat , by boat . ( R . 466 . ) Trouble with sand bars was encountered during the ( month molith ) of June unless the water was very high . Sand bars were not frequent during ordinary high water , occurring possibly ( fifteen flftecii ) or twenty times on the trip . Trouble with ( rocks roclcs ) was also encountered , the boat drifting into the rocks ( be- be ) cause of the swiftness of the stream , and ordinarily damaging the boat . ( R . 466-467 . ) . Hit sand bars fifteen or twenty times in the ( month nionth ) of June . The boat would drift in on the ( rocks rochs ) , and you ( couldn't couldnt ) help yourself sometimes , and generally ( have b-axe baxe ) a ( smash-up smashup ) then . ( R . 467 . ) During low water in August and other ( low-water lowwater ) months , more difficulties were encountered ; rocks are worse and sand bars more frequent , requiring about fifteen ( hours bouTs ) to make the trip of ( twenty-five twentyfive ) miles . The water is low then , and you are ( running Tuniling ) on to the rocks all the time , got to pry it off the rocks and have considerable trouble . The sand is worse then on account of being very little water on top of the sand . ( R . ( 468 46S ) . ) |