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Show 453 " A. Well, probably take it three or four days, maybe, to change. The worst time, when we happened to be off the river a short time and come back on to it, we are completely lost, until your get familiar with the river, and then you have, sometimes, to find the proper place to go, and invariably we would take the wrong course. " Q. Isn't it a fact every change of that river in the stream flow makes a re- arrangement in the sand? " A. Yes. " Q. How, when that re- arrangement comes, are you able to tell where the deep water is by any experience that you have had before? " A. Not necessarily, no; it is all guess work. The best way I could tell would be to get out and climb on top of the cabin and look ahead and see which way the most water is going, and say, ' Well, looks like it is going here, because it is wider'; get into it, and the first thing we know, we are stuck. " If the other course, where the river has divided - probably be deeper and not so wide, - when we get stuck - the back of the boat always strikes first, then swings around on us, because we are stuck, and we lose control of the boat, and time and again swing the wrong way and get stuck worse." R. 1166- 1167 High water occurs during May and June of each year because of melting snow. When a raise comes |
