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Show In the course of these 1338 trips , and on the occasion when he stopped to hunt ou his way back from . Moab , the ( channel cliannel ) had gone back to its natural winter channel , and he does not recall any trouble in landing . The silt bars that were exposed were so hard he could run up to them and camp on them , and he has made landings when there was mud and silt at the edge of the river , but he only recalls one special instance ( when -when when ) ( he lie ) wanted to stop at ( Port Fort ) Bottom , ( 'and and ) ( he lie ) ran into the point of a ( high-water highwater ) silt bar about one hundred feet ( from froin ) the bank , with only about four inches of ( water -water water ) over it . He caught the nose of the boat ( on oil ) it but kept the engine ( run- run ) ( ning uing ) and sucked the mud ( from froni ) under the boat , and went on shore . He did this purposely so he could land . ( R . 5219-5220 . ) It is his experience that the silt bars that have never been exposed to the atmosphere , and were just deposited in absolutely dead water , that he could create a current with revolutions of his propeller , and suck it out and have channel enough to get to shore in the boat , and would have to back out in the morning . He does not think the channel ( changes change ) so much from high water , but a projection will change the current , and he could not say the channel changed , , because in low water it goes back anyway . But the current does change at points where a ( projec projec- projec ) tion will change it . ( K . 5220-5221 . ) He originally went to Greenriver with the thought in mind of operating freight boats on the |