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Show 3266 Dent- C 1291 Q Just one more question, then I am through, Colonel -- A Off the record, do you want the unofficial discharge? MR. FARNSWORTH: No. Q You wish to express to the Special Master the opinion that there would have been difficulty with the same boat you had on that trip from the North wash down to Lee's Ferry and coming back up again? MR. BLACKMAR: I object to it as repetition. A I want to be sure -- I want to be sure that I understand it. MR. BLACKMAR: There is not any doubt about it; he answered it once. Go ahead, Colonel. A I repeat, that it would have been extremely difficult, and impossible to come up in the boat. Q Now, is there any mental reservation? You have there something peculiar about that boat -- or something that was peculiar about some certain place there that day that I haven't heard about. Is that your reason for saying you couldn't come up in the boat? A There is no mental reservation. Q What I mean, is there something you haven't mentioned here as the basis for the answer? A Perhaps seventy- five per cent of the mileage could have been made up stream in the boat; the other twenty- five per cent there would have been places where unquestionably it would |
