CHAPTER IV.
Locked in the Chasm of Lodore--Rapids with Railway Speed--A Treacherous Approach to Falls of Disaster--Numerous Loadings and Unloadings--Over the Rocks with Cargoes--Library Increased by _Putnam's Magazine_--Triplet Falls and Hell's Half Mile--Fire in Camp--Exit from Turmoil to Peace.
On Saturday the 17th of June, the member of the Harrell party who was to travel overland from Green River Station with mail for us from Salt Lake arrived with only two letters.

The despatch had been too late to stop the packet which already had been started for the Uinta Indian Agency, whence it would reach us at the mouth of the Uinta River.

It would be another month, at least, before we could receive those longed for words from home.

There was nothing now to delay us further, and after dinner the boats were prepared for canyon work again.

Through Brown's Park we had not been obliged to pay much attention to "ship-shape" arrangements, but now the story was to be different.