Meanwhile Wheeler planned, if no relief came, to abandon the river on the 22nd, but on the evening of that same day, having made six miles up the river, the party had the joy of finally reaching Diamond Creek with the two boats.

Wheeler had succeeded in a well-nigh hopeless task.
"The land party had left at ten in the morning," so Gilbert writes me, "and their camp was reached by our messengers on foot at 1 p.m.

These facts were announced to us by a note one of our messengers sent down the river on a float." A number of the boat party were then sent out to the rendezvous camp, while the remainder turned about and began the perilous descent, having now to do just what would have been necessary if the start had been made from Diamond Creek.

Mohave was reached in safety ON THE EVENING OF THE FIFTH DAY, whereas it had required about four weeks of extremely hard work to make the same distance against the current.
This is all the comment necessary on the two methods.

The whole party that reached Diamond Creek was as follows: Lieutenant Wheeler, G.K.
Gilbert, P.W.Hamel, T.H.O'Sullivan, E.M.Richardson, Frank Hecox, Wm.