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Show 589 read to you, and give in more detail the nature and identity of the perils and inconveniences encountered by you on the journey. Isn't that true? " A Yes." R. 1436 He wrote the article appearing in Exhibit No. 177 which bears the title, ' Through Mysterious Canons of the Colorado', dated 1892 and printed on page beginning 258. This was written while the incidents were fresh in the mind of the witness and when his diary and stenographic notes were available. R. 1437. " Q Calling your attention now to that page 258, after you speak of launching the boats, you state this: ( Reads:) ' The next day we cast off and started mouth on the Green for the head of the Colorado river, one hundred and twenty miles away. ' A few miles from our start be entered labyrinth cannon, which is very winding. At Bowknot Bend we traveled seven miles to get one- fourth of a mile ahead, the river making a complete bowknot. '[ R. 1437] " That was true, wasn't it? " A Yes. " Q Then, in the next paragraph, you described the formations that you encountered in that vicinity, and the commencing with the last paragraph on the name page, this statement: |