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Show 7240 Blake- D 5220 A On that trip the channel had gone back to its natural winter channel, and I don't recall any trouble in landing; in fact, the silt that was exposed, the silt bars that were exposed were so hard we would run up to them and camp on them, then. Q Have you made landings when there was mud and silt at the edge of the river? A Yes. Q During a receding stage. When you ran on to them how did you get off? A I only recall one special instance when we wanted to stop at the Foot bottom where I had lived at his house, to register, as he had asked us to register; I ran into a point of a high water silt bar about one hundred feet from the bank, only about four inches of water over it; I caught the nose of the boat in it, kept the engine running and sucked the mud from under the boat and went to ashore. Q Did you do that purposely? A Absolutely purposely. Q Ran up there for the purpose of landing, did you? A Yes sir. Q Is it difficult to get through or recede from a condition like that? A Well, those silt bars that have never been exposed to the atmosphere, in my experience of those, they were still |
