All stores and provisions were packed in water-tight rubber bags, made like ocean mail-sacks, expressly for the purpose.

The expedition was thus well provided.
From the railway* the boats were hauled on waggons to the mouth of Crescent Creek near Fremont River, so as to avoid doing Cataract Canyon over again.

There were twelve men, of whom four had been with the Brown party.

They were R.B.Stanton, Langdon Gibson, Harry McDonald, and Elmer Kane, in boat No.

1, called the Bonnie Jean, John Hislop F.A.
Nims, Reginald Travers, and W.H.Edwards in boat No.