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Show 518 understand it. " MR. BLACKMAR: There is not any doubt about it; he answered it once. " Go ahead, Colonel. " A I repeat, that it would have been extremely difficult, and impossible to come up in the boat. " Q Now, is there any mental reservation? You have there something peculiar about that boat-- or something that was peculiar about some certain place there that day that I haven't heard about. Is that your reason for saying you couldn't come up in the boat? " A There is no mental reservation?" R. 1291. Perhaps seventy- five percent of the millage could have been made up stream in the boat; " the other twenty- five per cent there would have been places where unquestionably it would have been necessary to get out of the boat and help it. " R. 1291- 1292. The boat used is a U. S. Geological Survey boat; " the same boat that was used by Mr. Hoyt the previous year from Greenriver to the mouth." He had an out- board motor, good " as out- board motors go." R. 1292. " Had considerable trouble getting it started, at times; ran quite nicely most of the time, afterwards." R. 1292. When he arrived at Lee's Ferry it was running better than at any other time on the trip. R. 1292. " Q Had a good deal of trouble with it on the way down, did you? 46 |