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Show 2678-9' Vol . 15 . ) ( I 1 ) believe that 72 when we were making our meander survey below Moab we got stuck many times with the small boat at points from 3 to 9 miles below Moab . ( R . 2679-80 , Vol . 15 . ) In November , 1926 , ( I 1 ) made another trip with the black boat , also in one of our boats and on the big scow of the Moab Garage Company . ( R . 2682 , Vol . 15 . ) Our survey parties obtained most of their supplies by trucks and wagons at points near our camp , although some of our supplies were hauled down the river on our boat and on the Moab Garage ( Company's Companys ) boat . ( R . 2683 , Vol . 15 . ) When I crossed the San Juan River at the mouth of Nokai and observed that its width was about 600 feet and its depth from a few inches to a foot , I was directing ( ray my ) attention to the matter of depth ; the water ( "probably probably ) came ( two-thirds twothirds ) of the way ( up" up ) my ( horse's horses ) legs . I was riding either a mule or a horse of medium size , weighing from 800 to 1000 pounds ; I should judge its hind legs were 30 inches long and its fore legs maybe 24 inches . As I crossed the river I looked down to see where the water reached on the animal and observed that it came to a point more than ( two-thirds twothirds ) up its legs . It came up to the ( horse's horses ) belly . Our camp was back at a point from which one ( couldn't couldnt ) see the San Juan River . ( R . 2700-3 , Vol . 15 . ) On the May , 1926 , trip from Moab to Lockhart when , as I testified , there was an observable change in the channel of the river , we ( didn't didnt ) go upstream in the same channel \ that we went down because going up we endeavored to go as close to the shore as we could to take advantage of the slow water , whereas on the down trip we generally kept in the deep part where the current was and on our upstream trip avoided , as far as we could , the path we had followed going down . ( R . 2711 , Vol . 15 . ) ( I 1 ) ( don't dont ) know definitely about the changing of channels . ( "I I ) think we changed our course because we thought the river had changed its course . " ( R . 2712-3 , Vol . 15 . ) In the meander survey , concerning which I have testified , the course of our boat would sometimes be in the middle of the stream , sometimes along the shore , sometimes we would cross back and forth , and we would often beach our boat and also hug the bank as closely as we could . We would thus , of course , very frequently touch sand . ( R . 2715-6 , Vol . 15J On an occasion when the Moab Garage boat was stuck on a sand bar it became thus stuck when they took |