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Show ( men mon ) ; especially in ( warm warni ) 779 weather ( be he ) would get out and wade across the ( stream streani ) , with an oar , clear across , and pick out where the water ( might inight ) be a . little bit deeper , if he ( couldn't couldnt ) do it with his eye , where he might get my boat through without too , much trouble . ( R . 2993-2994 . ) He generally found a place where the water was a trifle deeper , but invariably those places were in a place where the channel was , the channel being in shallow ( water water- water ) and it ( was -was was ) necessary to drag the boat across ; just a question of working your way through . ( R . 2994 . ) ( Cross-examination Crossexamination Cross-exagnination Crossexagnination ) ( R . Vol . 16 , pp . 29914- . 3001 ) : River was invariably shallow clear across at these points where they had trouble and the ( chan chan- chan ) nel would pinch out on them , invariably be ( sbal-- sbal ) low all the way across . ( R . 2994 . ) These spots were generally known from ( former- former ) experience , but not withstanding that , he did get out and walk clear across trying to find a channel , when he got stuck . ( Practically Praciically ) always found a . place where we could get a boat through , but it was very limited , and very shallow water all the , way across . ( R . 2995 . ) He rode horseback down to the Frank ( Shafer Shafer- Shafer ) well only twice that he ( remembers remembeTs ) . His experience on the river covered the period from 1924 until November , 1928 . ( R . 2995 . ) On the trips taken in January 1926 , he got out of the boat between a mile aud a mile and a half * |