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Show 4535 Freeman- D 2554 and World Traveler. I would state it in somewhat simpler language of writer with occasional lapses into Journalism. Q. Have you made any special examination in your lifetime in connection with rivers? A. Considerable, yes, sir. Q. What rivers have you dealt with personally? A. The list would be a very long one; I could barely more than run over it by name. THE SPECIAL MASTER: What do you mean by " dealt with"? MR. BLACKMAR: Traveled. THE SPECIAL MASTER: Traveled on. A. I will state just as briefly as I can merely by name a number of the African an Asiatic and European rivers I have been on, and perhaps mention at a little greater length those of North America, and my reasons for having studied them. In the course of perhaps 15 or 20 years travel abroad I have been on the Yangtse, through the Ichang gorge of the Yangtse; on the Salmeen and the Irrawadi in Burma; the Ganges, the upper Indus; in Kashmir, I had been particularly interested in the use of native craft; I took every opportunity to attempt to use them, sometimes with not entirely satisfactory results to myself; these little skin boats on the Indus, on the Tigris and Ruphrates, the native craft there, in Africa called Kalek and Gufa. I boated by steamer or by launch pretty well to Gondokoro about two thousand miles from the mouth of the Nile. I have boated for lesser lengths the Zambesi in South Africa. Of South |