In fact each party thought the other was taking the more desperate chance.

By a mistake the duplicate records were wrongly divided, each party having portions of both sets.

This afterwards made gaps in the river data below the Paria as far as Catastrophe Rapid.

Powell entered the Maid of the Canyon and pulled away while the departing men stood on an overhanging crag looking on.

Both boats succeeded in going through without accident, and it was then apparent that the place was not so bad as it looked and that they had run many that were worse.