Nims was taken to Lee's Ferry and left with W.M.Johnson, who had been a member of our land parties during the winter of 1871-72, and who had come with the Canonita party through Glen Canyon.

Nims was in good hands.

After this accident Stanton was obliged to assume the duties of photographer and took some seven hundred and fifty views without previous experience.
* The Rio Grande Western.

The route was west of the river.
By January 13th they had arrived at Point Retreat, where the canyon had before been abandoned, and here they found the supplies and blankets they had cached in a marble cave in perfect condition.

The new boats were so well suited to the river work that they were able to run most of the rapids just as we had done, often going at the rate of fifteen miles an hour, and sometimes by actual measurement, twenty.