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Show 4626 Weber- C 2640 bar. Is that correct? What bar you get stuck on, do you remember? A About seven miles below Good Hope. Q About seven miles below Good Hope. You missed the channel there, didn't, you, Mr. Weber? A I don't know anything about it; I wasn't pilot; I am not much of a boatman. Q When you got the scow off the bar you shoved it off into deeper water, didn't you? A Yes. Q There was deeper water there, water deep enough to float the scow loaded as it was had you happened to strike it when you were coming down? A I don't know anything about that. He might have wanted to dodge some rocks in order to get through that channel, but anyway we were stranded there; we was half a day getting off. We finally got off, and drifted on down. Q Didn't you find in your efforts to get the scow off that there was deeper water off to the side? A Sure we found it, otherwise we wouldn't have got there. Q Had you found the deeper water in the first place, you wouldn't have got on the sandbar, would you? A I wouldn't say that, because, just as I said, the channel he was used to going, might have been obstructions there that he tried to avoid, and probably got a little far off |
