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Show 4207 McDonald- RD 2227 is dead, quite a number of years. Q You left him there at Wheelers? A I left him below wheelers a ways. He would get his furs, go up there and trade them off at the ferry. He would start up there, by gracious, with tobacco and a jug of whiskey and not a bite or anything else to eat, and go down there to be gone for months; just live on what he could kill and catch; it's a fact. MR. BLACKMAR: I think that is all, Mr. McDonald. FURTHER EXAMINATION BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q Mr. McDonald, in answer to Mr. Blackmar and to Mr. Farnsworth as to the difficulties that you encountered on the Colorado river, have you named all the kinds of difficulties that you encountered? I don't mean have you named each special bar and each special rock, but were there any other kind of difficulties that you encountered in going down the river? A Just the rocks and the bars and the low water. The trouble of it is, the lowness of the water and the shifting of the sand. Q Did you meet a phenomenon -- or did you meet a condition in the river that has been testified to here as a sand |