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Show Record the statement. He was right at the river and asked me the questions. One of them had a typewriter. I don't know whether it was Mr. Ryan. He asked me about my trips down the river. I told him my experiences. I aimed to tell him substantially the same that I have told the court here today. I can't say that he went away and appeared later with the typewritten statement. 4630 Mr. Ryan in court: After I had talked to him I wrote out the statement and handed it to him for signature, and he read it. 4631 In making the statement to Mr. Ryan I did not tell him 4632 in substance anything different than what I have told here today. I don't remember of encountering any sand waves on that Colorado trip. I never saw any on the Colorado River. I saw sand waves once on the Grand, but I never saw any on the lower Colorado I made at least three trapping trips down the river and back. Our practice in going back up the river was to take advantage of all the back water, that is, back of the islands and things to get out of the current. We did not necessarily try to go in the deepest water. We tried to get the easiest water. 4633 H. J. Howland testified for defendant on direct examination as follows: I am the son of Mr. Harry Taylor Howland who has just testified. I reside at Greenriver, Utah. I have lived there most of my life. I am 29 years old. My father was born in 1871. I recall taking the trip with my father in 1910 to 4635 Indian Creek. On that trip we got two deer just below Indian Creek on the Colorado. We transported them on the boat until they were eaten up. At that time I was ten years old. On the trip I do not recall any difficulties at all. As I grow older I had occasion to make other trips on the Green River. In 1915 I made a trip from Greenriver to a little 4636 below Valentine Bottom, about 100 miles down the river. I went down about the middle of October and came back about the first of December. The purpose of the trip was trapping and hunting. My |