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Show Blake- C 939 Whether you were asked or not, did you not on a great number of occasions steer your boat on to a bar that was not sub-merged, in order to permit Mr. Hoyt to make observations? Yes sir, no other place to land. You encountered bars in that manner very, very many times in your trip on that river with Mr. Hoyt? Whenever it was necessary to land. That was true on both rivers, wasn't it? Yes sir. I believe you stated you used a boat that had been formerly used by Mr. Woolley? I believe that to have been the case. Where had Mr. Woolley used that boat? I don't know definitely. You don't know definitely that it was used by Mr. Woolley, then, do you? It was stated to me on good authority. Had Mr. Woolley used it on the Colorado and Green rivers? Possibly. On some of the trips that he made in navigating those rivers I am not certain. But you got the information that it was, from the same source that you got that information that you gave on direct examina-tion, didn't you? MR. BLACKMAR: I don't think there is any use spending time on that. It is purely hearsay. I haven't 2909 |
