The other ten men concluded to remain with Stanton and they all went on in the two boats.
Several days later they passed the mouth of the Kanab.

The terrible First Granite Gorge was well behind them.

But now the river began to rise.

Before reaching the Kanab it rose four feet and continued to rise for two days and nights, altogether some ten or twelve feet.

A little below the Kanab, where the canyon is very narrow, they came upon a peculiar phenomenon.