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Show 360 " A. There was the one difficulty - the primary difficulty was the finding of the channel through these crossing bars, and another difficulty was our flood stage of water, at one time or another, which would cause us to keep constantly on the water against a rise in the river which might carry our boats into an unfavorable location or might submerge our camp. " Then there was another difficulty, of a sudden drop in the river, which at times would leave our boats - or start to leave our boats high and dry before we could move them. " At one time we barely got the boats out before they would have been land- locked , with a wide mud flat between us and the river. " Q. By that you mean that the river started to drop rapidly? " A. Yes sir. " Q. While you were in camp? " A. yes sir. " Q. And when that started you had to quickly got your boats out? " A. Yes sir, to keep from getting stuck on the dry land. [ R. 922- 923] " There was one other feature which in somewhat of a menace, that is the flow of driftwood in the river, to motor boats; that might have been very serious to our boat; it was just a minor problem, |