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Show 4360 Loper- D 2380 of the river was a jumbled mass of huge boulders, anywhere from five feet square up to twenty feet square; it was hard getting over there. When I got up and could look down the river I could see no Russell, boat, or anything. I used all the speed I could, and went down that river and passed this job, and in going along there was a little spit of sand; when I started across there I seen fresh tracks, with water drops all around the foot prints. I looked ahead, and there was Russell, going down the river. I hurried up -- BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q He was still on foot? A Yes; I caught up with him. I said, " What has happened?" He said, " My boat went out from under me." I says, " Where?" He told me it was way back up here ( indicating). I still think he clumb out of the river there; the water was still dropping off his clothes. We spent two days going up and down the river trying to get some clue or some sight of his boat,-- there was so much in the boat. We couldn't. Then, on the third day, I cooked quite a sack of biscuits, and we took a pair of oars and a hammer, and started up the river. |