Here Powell determined that he would push ahead of the main party, in order to make his way, as soon as possible, to the Uinta Ute Agency, in order to communicate with the outer world and ascertain if his plans for supply-trains were moving on to success.

He took the Dean, but Bishop was put in my place because of his considerable experience in the Western country, for there was no telling what they might encounter.

On the morning of July 7th, at daybreak, therefore, they were off, and speedily disappeared from our sight within the rocks that arose below our camp.

A number of the remaining men climbed to the top of the left-hand side of the "gate," an altitude of about three thousand feet above camp, and from there were able to see the Emma Dean for a long distance, working down through the rapids.

The view from that altitude over the surrounding country and into the canyon was something wonderful to behold.