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These two camera mules, together with our own saddle animals, 

 formed a mobile unit of our outfit and Tom took them particularly 

 in charge. Thus, leaving the remainder of the pack train with its 

 heavy burden of chuck and blanket rolls to plod along on the main 

 trail to some designated camp, we would make side trips with our 

 camera mules to various points of vantage, such for instance, as the 

 edge of the Granite Gorge, as shown in figure 85. Upon arrival at 

 camp, we always found that Joe Lane had an excellent camp dinner 

 ready for us. By this system we were able to work much more rapidly 

 and to accomplish far more with our cameras than otherwise. 



Fig. 88. — Hermit Rapids. 



Our first important photographic station was at the Hermit Rapids. 

 Here, even at normal stage, the reddish brown waters of the Colorado 

 are lashed into foaming waves, leaping in places twelve or fifteen feet 

 in height and withal presenting a most attractive subject for a motion 

 picture camera. The contrast between the river we saw from the 

 South Rim almost a mile above, that thin yellowish ribbon winding its 

 way down through the bottom of the Granite Gorge and this giant 

 flood surging before us is so great that nothing short of the motion 

 picture camera can possibly give any adequate conception of it. A 



