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Show 5281 Chaffin- D 3293 the shallowest place on the river. There the rocks and things stick up. This ice was clogged up there forty feet high, backed up the river for a mile and a half; that ice would come down through there and slip out over. We got up around above this here -- we would wade out would swim. He wasn't much of a swimmer, or me, either. I had quite a time getting across with him. Generally get to a rock and get him on it, I would help him across. We made her up to the shook bar by doing this way. After we got up where the river widened out, out of this gorge where we seen it wasn't froze, we had to wade up, and get up the best we could. When we got to the Shock bar, we waded across. There the river is a shallow rapid, or reef, kind of rock bottom. By picking around you can wade across without going in very deep. Then, the next day, we went up and swam across to the island above the Shock bar, built a raft, went across to the main creek, and walked up and over to what I believe they call Anderson bar. We made her across there down over to where the boats was. After we had left the boats at Little Giant, they went down the river two or three miles, and had went over a |
