CHAPTER XV.
A New Departure--Farewell to the Boats--Out to the World Through Kanab Canyon--A Midnight Ride--At the Innupin Picavu--Prof.Reconnoitres the Shewits Country--Winter Quarters in Kanab--Making the Preliminary Map--Another New Year--Across a High Divide in a Snow-storm--Down the Sevier in Winter--The Last Summons 242 Index 269 ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE The Grand Canyon _Frontispiece_ Looking south from the Kaibab Plateau, North Rim, near the head of Bright Angel Creek, the canyon of which is seen in the foreground.

The San Francisco Mountains are in the distance.
On the South Rim to the right, out of the picture, is the location of the Hotel Tovar.

The width of the canyon at top in this region is about twelve miles, with a depth of near 6000 feet on the north side, and over 5000 on the south.

Total length, including Marble Canyon division, 283 miles.
Sketch made in colour on the spot by F.S.Dellenbaugh, June 4, 1903.
The Toll 1 Unidentified skeleton found April, 1906, by C.C.Spaulding in the Grand Canyon 300 feet above the river, some miles below Bright Angel trail.

There were daily papers in the pocket of the clothes of the early spring of 1900.
Photograph by Kolb Bros.