Mrs.Thompson would willingly have gone all the way through if her husband had consented to it.
On the 15th it was "all ashore not going"; we said our farewells to those leaving for Kanab, and turned our attention to the river.

We would see no one after starting till we arrived at the mouth of the Kanab, where we had discovered, during the winter, that a pack-train, with some difficulty, could be brought in with supplies.

It was not till the 17th that we were able to leave, as the boats needed some further attention.
On that day, about nine o'clock, we cast off and went down some five miles, running one little rapid and another of considerable size before we halted for dinner.

The walls were still not high, only about five hundred feet, and I climbed out to secure a farewell glance at the open country.

On starting again we had not gone far before we came to a really bad place, a fall of about eighteen feet in seventy-five yards, where it was deemed respectful to make a portage.