JOHN WESLEY POWELL. 4! 



were supplied with food, and put on their way to the settlements. 

 Shortly after they had left, an Indian from the east side of the Col- 

 orado arrived at their village, and told them about a number of 

 miners having killed a squaw in a drunken brawl, and no doubt 

 these were the men. No person had ever come down the canyon ; 

 that was impossible ; they were trying to hide their guilt. In this 

 way he worked them into a great rage. They followed, surrounded 

 the men in ambush, and filled them full of arrows." 



