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Show 414 and I knew that was the channel of the river at that time, almost what you would call a permanent bank; the next trip down it wasn't, because you would have to camp there - you would have to unload your boat on the way back on a sand bar and carry your stuff maybe three or four hundred feet to get back to where you would want to camp. " I have noticed a difference in that way, that the channel of the river, instead of being deep where I though it was, the deep part of the river was on the other side. " Q. Did that occur frequently in that stretch of country?" " A. Well, no, I wouldn't hardly say that; I know that there was several changes of the river. " I don't know whether it was because the first trip I went down the water was higher and in the fall of the year, as everybody knows, the river is at its lowest point, but it seemed to me as though the channel of the river had just simply moved. The current wasn't where - in places - where it was when I was there before. " I noticed it in beaver dams in the falls of the year. " Q. In what? " A. Beaver dams, where they had lived, put in their cache for winter of willows, brush, and they will start in in September, maybe the latter part |