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Show 139 135 " Q A lot of these places where you encountered difficulties, do you not think if you had been more familiar with the river and had been going up and down it you would not have met width any trouble? " A No, sir; because the man handling the boat is considered one of the best boatmen in the Colorado Basin. " Q He was familiar with the river, was he? " A Yes, sir." R. 301. He doesnot know how many times his boatman had been up and down the river. He ( the boatman) and his father, had lived at Greenriver, and knew its channel pretty well. R. 301- 302. Except for the ability to tell where the channel is from surface indications, in view of the nature of the banks, a man could not be familiar with the navigation of either of these rivers unless he had been on them. " Q Well, he [ the boatman Blake] had had no familiarity with any other river than the Colorado, had he? " A The San Juan. " Q He had navigated the San Juan? " A I do not know whether you would call it navigating. He had been from Chinle Creek to the mouth in boats. " Q But he been up and down the Green River many times, had he not? " A I can not answer that. " Q Did he not tell you that he had? " A I am not sure about the ' many'; he had been down there with his father; he knew that river probably as well |