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Show 587 " A Yes. " Q And it is a fact that you had a pleasant sail down that Stretch of water, is it not? [ R. 1434.] " A Well I took an author's privilege of writing those articles, to make it a story, and introduced words that were not in the diary, of course, to make it, because I wasn't intending to publish a transcript of my diary notes, so I selected -- THE SPECIAL MASTER: That is not the question. The question was, does that statement represent the facts, that you had ' a pleasant sail'? " A So -- it was pleasant in some ways, but unpleasant in others, when we had trouble with the boats; there wasn't any pleasure in having a boat stuck on the rocks and knocking holes in it and having to jump out up to our waist or higher and wade to shore and rowing the boats; that wasn't very pleasant. BY MR. FARNSWORTH: " Q Of course I take it, Mr. Nims, that on a trip of that length on a river you would expect to have some little accident or incident that wouldn't be entirely pleasant? " A Yes. " Q But that was intended by you to be a true general statement of the trip, that it was a pleasant sail down that stretch of river? " A No. [ R. 1436.] |