Hardy took him down to Fort Mohave, where he met Dr.Parry,* who recorded his whole story, drawn out by many questions, and believed it.

This was not surprising; for, no man ever yet having accomplished what White claimed to have done, there was no way of checking the points, of his tale.

"Now, at last," remarks Dr.
Parry, "we have a perfectly authentic account, from an intelligent source, from a man who actually traversed its formidable depths, and who, fortunately for science, still lives to detail his trustworthy observations of this remarkable voyage." The doctor was too confiding.
Had I the space I would give here the whole of White's story, for it is one of the best bits of fiction I have ever read.

He had obtained somehow a general smattering of the character of the river, but as there were trappers still living, Kit Carson, for example, who possessed a great deal of information about it, this was not a difficult matter.

But that he had no exact knowledge of any part of the river above the lower end of the Grand Canyon, is apparent to one who is familiar with the ground, and the many discrepancies brand the whole story as a fabrication.