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Show 3411 Nims- C 1434 Q At a time when the incidents of the trip were fresher in your mind than they are now? A Yes sir. Q And at a time when you had the benefit of those notes, and any diary that you had kept? A Yes. Q I call your attention to the first page appearing in this exhibit of printed matter, which comes immediate before a page typed as page 258. You will observe on that page, and down to the first paragraph of the page which bears the printed number 258, you refer to getting the boats to Greenriver and preparing to start on the journey? A Yes. Q Then I invite your attention to the first paragraph, which begins on page 258, in which you make this statement: " We had a pleasant sail down the Green of one hundred and twenty miles, to its junction with the Grand, forming the Colorado." A Yes. Q You refer there to your journey from the town of Greenriver to the mouth of the Green river? A Yes. Q And it is a fact that you had a pleasant sail down that stretch of water, is it not? A Well, I took an author's privilege of writing those articles, |
