There were three of us, and probably we were among the first whites to go there.

Powell the autumn after the men were killed went to the Uinkaret Mountains, but did not continue over to the Shewits Plateau.

Thompson went there in 1872.
*I have since been told that these men were killed near Mt.
Dellenbaugh, but my version is as I remember Jacob Hamblin's statement to me in 1872.

He was the first to get the story.
Meanwhile the boat party dashed safely on through a succession of rapids till noon, when they arrived at another very bad place.

In working through this by means of lines, Bradley was let down in one of the boats to fend her off the rocks, and finding himself in a serious predicament started to cut the line, when the stern of the boat pulled away and he shot down alone.