Bishop was in a similar plight, and went to Salt Lake to regain his health, and Beaman had started off to carry on some photographic operations of his own.

He came to the river and crossed on his way to the Moki country, while we were preparing to depart from the Paria.

Johnson and Fennemore, who had been with us part of the winter, were too ill to think of entering the great canyon, with all the uncertainties of such a venture, and as before noted they, too, had left.

Our party, then, consisted of seven: Powell, Thompson, Hillers, Jones, W.C.Powell, Hattan, and Dellenbaugh, all from the first season's crew.

No one else was available, as the trip was regarded in that region as extremely desperate.