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Show 4451 Marrs- C 2471 Naturally, my first trip up, and second trip up, I made these markers to enable me to accomplish the trip with more ease the next trip up. Q I ask you whether that was a practice you followed during your operations there. As I understood you to state, you said it was. You didn't confine those markings to the first trip, did you? A The majority were made during the first few trips. The second trip, after we got on a bar which was not in the river on the first trip up, the bar perhaps wasn't in that place, there was good water, so we would put up another marker. Q Why put up another marker? A So we would know where the bar would be next time; we didn't know whether it would be there or not; we would look for it. Q If you answered me that you followed this practice of marking places at which you had observed difficulties throughout the period that you were operating there, do you know just why you didn't limit it to the first trip or two? A I don't know that I made you understand just what I was up against in going on this river in place these markers. Q I am interested in these markings. As a matter of fact, you fixed places on that river -- you fixed in your mind places on that river where you had encountered difficulties, had |