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Show every three days there 1354 would be one of the nights that ( he lie ) would have to travel late , or camped out along the river , and they would generally ( travel trdvel ) pretty late that night . They have left from points down the river and started upstream with the ( inten- inten ) tion of tying up on the stream overnight , and ( con- con ) ( cluded eluded ) the journey the next morning . They would do this most of the time . There were two or three times on moonlight nights when they would get into the dock as late as ( nine-thirty ninethirty ) . They would have ( delays deldys ) at times when operating the big barge , and the delays were ordinarily in low water . ( ( B R ) . 5266- 5267 . ) On the trips he made during this ( seven- seven ) month period , he would say that there would be half of them ( when -when when ) they were not delayed on account of not getting up and down the river because of ( ob- ob ) . structions or obstacles in the way of sand bars . There is a point between Mill Creek Wash and ( Xane Kane ) Spring Wash ( where -where where ) they generally met with difficulties when they would have them , and ( an- an ) , , other place that he calls the Canyon Wash , about za mile and a half below the upper dock , where they ( would ivould ) get hung up on sand bars . At this ( last-men lastmen last-men- lastmen ) tioned place , he remembers but two times ; each time they had trouble was after a big flood that came in from the north side of the river , and it would seem like the channel was kind of clogged ( up -tip tip ) there , and the point would run out into the river a little farther than it had ( been belen ) before ; the sand would extend farther out . As a rule , if they |