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Show 4250 Rust- D 2271 A Yes sir. Q You don't turn your passengers loose to handle a boat themselves, do you? MR. FARNSWORTH: He said they do. I don't think counsel ought to lead him. The witness has said one of the two passengers on the other boat, two- passenger boat, takes care of his boat. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q How many boats do you take down at a time? A Usually two, sometimes three or four. Q During these trips that you have been making down there for the last twelve years, have you had occasion to ob-serve the channel and bars, the reefs on the Colorado river? Q I have had a good opportunity. Q I wish you would just tell me about a typical trip down there, and what difficulties, if any, you encountered. A In the first place, I have a responsibility to make the trip safe; one reason why I have selected a small boat which is easily managed, quickly managed, to avoid the sandbars and the shoals and the whirlpools, the win waves and the sand waves which we sometimes encounter, -- we have encountered them,-- I have been driven ashore by the win a number of times, occasionally have to wait over three or four hours for the win to go down so that we can go on safely. |