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Show Record The two bits that I spoke of taking into our boat weighed only about two hundred and twenty- five pounds, and in addition we had 3163 our bedding and camp equipment in the boat. On the occasion re-ferred to in my direct examination, I walked clear across the 3164 river from one side to the other where there was water. I did this for the purpose of finding out the depth from one side to the other and because of my own curiosity. At that point the river is about three hundred and fifty or four hundred feet wide in low water, and I made this trip across the river in November, 3165 1920. I found the two foot depth on the right- hand bank going down, and I found several channels and walked through all of them. The two foot channel was probably six feet wide and was merely 3166 cracks in the river bottom. There was an island there and the channel was on the right- hand side of the island going down, that portion of the river going on the right- hand side of the island being about two hundred feet wide. On the occasion when I went up to Hall's Crossing, I kept over to one side where the water was 3167 sufficiently shallow to permit me to wade, which was out along the edge of the bars. On that trip I poled some of the distance but did not row very much. It was mostly walking and poling. 3168 On the occasion when the raft was stuck at Lake Canyon Rapid, the large pocks there were the cause of the big waves, and I didn't want to get in there and lose the material that was on the raft. In response to questions propounded by the Special Master T. Cumming Bennett testified as follows: 3169 In 1920 we were in there on our oil expedition. I worked for them about ten months. Supplies were brought overland to Hall's Crossing and to the Baker ranch and were taken down the river by boat. Supplies were brought in only when we went up the river on the occasions I have mentioned, and on two occasions 3170 there were no supplies. I never went to Hall's Crossing specially for supplies. After we took supplies in with us in July, 1920, my |