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Show 598 diary under date of July 1st, to this statement: ( Reads:) ' Passed Escalate Creek about one below camp, and the San Juan ten miles below that. Met the k of No. L." [ R. 1451] You don't know what means, I guess? " MR. FARNSWORTH: I guess he doesn't know, or he would have filled it in. " A No. " Q ( Reads:) ' Only had a few rapids, none of them bad, but had a guest of swift water, so that we made nearly fifty miles; ate our lunch in an alcove. Brown staked some placers, but doesn't seen inclined to give the rest of us a chance.' You remember raking that notation, don't you? " A Yes sir. " Q It was true? " A Yes sir. " Q Calling attention to your entry under date of June 1st, let me ask you, before I read it to you, whether or not you don't recall going on an expedition up the rioter yourself, rowing up the river there where you strike the quiet water below Cataract canyon? " A I didn't do any rowing in that. " Q Let's call your attention to this entry on June 21st. |