miles farther down, the boat in which Brown, Hughes, and Reynolds were running a rapid capsized.  The men clung to her for a mile and a half and then succeeded in getting ashore.  The rapids in this part are very close together, and to these men it seemed like one continuous cataract, which it very nearly is.  On the same day another boat containing the cooking outfit struck a rock and went to pieces.  The provisions she carried were, most of them, contributed to the maw of the dragon to follow those of the unfortunate raft.  Sometimes the boats got away from the men altogether, running wild, finally lodging somewhere below to be found again with the contents missing.  Soon they had so many large holes in them that one, No. 3, had to be broken up to obtain materials for repairing the others.  Thus the party, by the time they had fairly arrived at the deepest and worst portion of this splendid chasm, were in a sad plight, but a plight mainly due to the original bad planning and mismanagement, and not necessary in navigating this gorge.  They seldom attempted to cross the river, working down along one side and never entering the boats at all except where absolutely necessary.* Thus they were greatly hampered in their movements.  With our boats we never gave the crossing of the river a thought, and were in them continually, except where a portage was demanded.  We could therefore always choose our course with as much freedom as is possible.  But it must not be forgotten that the Brown party were in Cataract Canyon about the time of high water, while we passed through at a lower stage.  This would make a difference, low water being in all the canyons far safer, though the work is harder on the men and the boats.  By the l5th of June all provisions had disappeared except a sack and a half of flour, presumably one hundred pounds to the sack, a little coffee, some sugar, and condensed milk.  The flour was all baked and divided equally, each man receiving two and one half pounds of bread, one pound of sugar, and four ounces of coffee.  At one point they fortunately found a barrel of cut loaf-sugar amongst the driftwood.  This had been lost from some army-supplies crossing at Gunnison Valley up the Green, or up Grand River, and they also found, a little below this, pieces of a waggon with the skeleton of a man.  These also had, of course, come from at least a hundred miles above the Junction on the Green, or sixty miles up the Grand, as no waggon could get to the river at any place nearer to Cataract Canyon.  The waggon-box had probably acted as a raft, bearing its gruesome passenger all these long miles into the heart of the mighty gorge, where the dragon stored his prize, and for many a year treasured it among the deep shadows.

* Mr. Stanton has called my attention to the fact that as he was running a railway survey down one side, he wanted to keep to that side the left side.