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Show 4345 Loper- D 2365 Q Did you always find a channel in the same place on those rivers? A No sir. Q At what different stages of the river did you note changes in the channel? A At all stages except high water, then your channel is in one place; extreme high water there is only one place for the channel, that is on the outside of the river. Q What about the sandbars, did you always find those in the same location in the river? A Sandbars left by high water is invariably on the inside bend of the river; but when the river starts to go down, and the summer rains start, they begin to out under bars left in high water, and, in other words, the high water cleans the river; it has a house- cleaning every spring. Immediately after that the summer floods come along, and undoes the work of the high water, fills the channel full of sand again that the high water has cleaned out. Q In all the seven years you were there, traveling the river, did you ever arrive at a knowledge of that river that you could follow a channel in it without getting stuck on a sandbar? A No, not on a crossing; I can follow a channel if you have got a channel, but on a crossing you have got no channel. THE SPECIAL MASTER: I don't understand this, at all, |