2, called the Lillie; and A.B.Twining, H.G.Ballard, L.G.Brown, and James Hogue, the cook, in the Marie, boat No.3.Christmas dinner was eaten at Lee's Ferry, with wild flowers picked that day for decoration.

On the 28th they started into the great canyon, passed the old wreck of a boat and part of a miner's outfit, and on the 31st reached the rapid where Brown was lost.

It was now the season of low water, and the rapid appeared less formidable, though on entering it the place was seen to be in general the same, yet the water was nine feet lower.

The next day Nims, the photographer, fell from a ledge a distance of twenty-two feet, receiving a severe jar and breaking one of his legs just above the ankle.

The break was bandaged, and one of the boats being so loaded that there was a level bed for the injured man to lie on, they ran down about two miles to a side canyon coming in from the north.