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and hastily reappeared with a gun in her hand. 

 She was quickly followed by a man, also with 

 a gun. In a threatening attitude they came out 

 to meet me; being unarmed myself I spoke to 

 them by bidding them good-day and making 

 some pleasant remark, but not until I had 

 heard the woman say to the man, 'Don't shoot, 

 he's all right.' I entered into a conversation 

 with them and they invited me to eat melons, 

 which I did with a gusto, and we parted with 

 expressions of good will — for they seemed very 

 much interested in my explorations and came 

 down to the river to see me off." 



Emeline Vaughn was an athlete and she told 

 Major Powell she could whip her "weight in 

 wildcats." Lee was later arrested and tried for 

 his part in the Mountain Meadows massacre, 

 and on March twenty-seventh, 1877, was exe ~ 

 cuted upon the scene of the massacre, near a 

 pile of stones which marks the grave of the 

 murdered emigrants. He was a descendant of 

 General Lee of Revolutionary fame, and a 

 blood relation of the Confederate General Rob- 

 ert E. Lee. 



The ferry became the property of the Mor- 

 mon church and was held by the church until 

 the year 1910, when it was purchased by the 

 Grand Canon Cattle Company. Navajo 



