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Show 3215 Dent- D 1241 As a matter of fact, it took us four hours to go that five miles. The grounding was very heavy at about mile 1/ 2, and very heavy, as I recall the point, at mile 3 1/ 3. I think the grounding at mile 1 3/ 4 was comparatively light. In one of those cases we had a crossing bar of the type that I first described, in other words, a crossing bar which the deep channel overlapped by a considerable distance. We went up stream to the head of a deep pocket and were unable to find any promising point to cross the bar. We retraced our steps, and tried to find some way of penetrating the bar in order to reach the deep pocket that extended down stream on the other bank. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q What did you do, turn around or reverse your propeller? A We turned around, your Honor; and being unable to find a crossing there, we went back up, pretty well up in the deep pocket to the down stream pocket, and man- handled the boat across, two members were out wading, and we spent a long time getting across. I might say, in connection with the navigation, that the boat in which we were traveling had this propeller and skag at the rear end, which projected far below the rest |