His character was unblemished." At one place which I identify as lower Disaster Falls, Canyon of Lodore, they came to a deserted camp, "a skiff and some heavy cooking utensils, with a notice posted on an alder [box-elder] tree, saying that they had found the river route impracticable...

and were about to start overland to Salt Lake." Manly took down the signed names of this party but his diary was later lost by fire.

Apparently the cooking utensils, etc., were the same we saw twenty-two years later at that place and thought were wreckage (see p.

255).

Manly died February 5, 1903, and is buried at Merced, California..