This flask was never drawn upon and was intact till needed as medicine in October.

Smoking was abandoned, though a case of smoking tobacco was taken for any Indians we might meet.

Our photographic outfit was extremely bulky and heavy, for the dry plate had not been invented.
We had to carry a large amount of glass and chemicals, as well as apparatus.
The numerous scientific instruments also were bulky, as they had to be fitted into wooden cases that were covered with canvas and then with rubber.

Rations in quantity were not obtainable short of Salt Lake or Fort Bridger, and we had Congressional authority to draw on the military posts for supplies.

The Major and his colleague, Professor Thompson, went to Fort Bridger and to Salt Lake to secure what was necessary, and to make further arrangements for the supplies which were to be brought in to us at the three established points: the mouth of the Uinta, by way of the Uinta Indian Agency; the mouth of the Dirty Devil; and the place where Escalante had succeeded in crossing the Colorado in 1776, known as the Crossing of the Fathers, about on the line between Utah and Arizona.
[Illustration: Red Canyon.
Photograph by E.O.Beaman, 1871.] Mrs.Thompson and Mrs.Powell, who had come out on the same train with us, had gone on to Salt Lake, where they were to wait for news from the expedition, when we should get in touch with the Uinta Agency at the mouth of the Uinta River, something over two hundred miles further down.
At length all was provided for and the Major and Prof.returned to our camp from Salt Lake bringing a new member of the party, Jack Hillers, to take the place of Jack Sumner of the former party who was unable to get to us on account of the deep snows in the mountains which surrounded the retreat where he had spent the winter trapping.