They had come in by way of the south end of the Kaibab, and it was on this occasion that the valley on the southern part of the summit was named De Motte Park.

Preparations for our descent through the great chasm were immediately begun.

The boats had been previously overhauled, and as the Nellie Powell was found unseaworthy from last season's knocks, or at least not in condition to be relied on in the Grand Canyon, she was abandoned, and Lee kept her for a ferry-boat.

Perhaps she might have been repaired, but anyhow we had only men enough to handle two boats.

Steward's trouble had not sufficiently improved to warrant his risking further exposure, so he had returned to his home in Illinois.