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Show Record Lewis Ransome Freeman testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: 2553 I live in New York City. I graduated from Stanford University in 1899. By publishers grandiloquently call me author, 2554 explorer and world traveler, but I would call myself a writer, with occasional lapses into journalism. I could barely more than run over by name the various rivers that I have dealt with, which include many in Africa, Asia, South America and North America. 2554- 2559 The witness mentions many rivers of the world on which he 2559- 2570 has had boating experience. The witness mentions certain books and contributions to magazines written by him, including those entitled respectively: Down the Yellowstone; A History of the Colorado River, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow ( Exhibit 81); Down the Grand Canyon; On the Roof of the Rockies; and stated the sources of information contained in those books. Continuing his direct examination Mr. Freeman testified: In my investigation of the Colorado River I found no evidence that the upper river had ever been boated by Indians in the way Indians have boated on other rivers where explorers used them; but Indians always did and do now boat on the Colorado below the 2571 Grand Canyon. In August and September, 1922, I made a trip on the 2572 Colorado River from Lee's Ferry to Hall's Crossing. By original invitation to join that party was as a writer, but at my request I acted as boatman. We had four eighteen- foot boats of the skiff 2573 type. They were heavily loaded and drew from six to eight inches of water; but it is difficult to state the draft without actual measurement. We used one Elto and three Evenrude motors on the boats, which, through the ingenuity of the chief of our party, Mr. 2574 Wimmer, were adjusted on to a hinged frame so that the Evenrudes had all the advantage of the Elto motor. As I recall there were six in our party, including a boatman, Bill Jones, and Wimmer's son Andy. I would say that it was an educational, not an engi-neering trip or one for a commercial purpose. Beside those I have |