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almost precipitous descent, down to the south approach to the sus- 

 pension bridge. Perhaps nowhere else can the extent of an expedi- 

 tion's equipment and the size of the pack train be so well gauged, as 

 on a tortuous trail, such as this. Our cavalcade now numbered 

 twenty-four animals, including the saddle animals, and made a very 

 considerable file, as it wound its way back and forth down these zig- 

 zags, as is shown in figure 87. 



Finally, arrived at the south approach to the bridge, we halted, 

 while our guides sent the pack train across, one animal at a time, as 

 is prescribed by the government regulations, governing the use of 

 this narrow, but very substantial, bridge. This occupied a consider- 

 able time, during which we were able to secure a series of photographs 

 and a considerable footage of film. 



We again took up the Kaibab trail, which leads directly up the 

 bottom of the Box Canyon of the Bright Angel for some miles, until 

 we reached Altar Falls on Ribbon Creek, where we again had an ex- 

 cellent opportunity to use our cameras in this very picturesque and 

 beautiful scenery. 



At this point we encountered some very well preserved aboriginal 

 remains, which are described in detail elsewhere in these pages.^^ 



After other tortuous miles, over the upper portion of the Kaibab 

 trail, which by the way, is no such trail as the Bright Angel, Hermit 

 and other trails found on the south side of the river, owing to the fact 

 that this trail is very little used and is not, therefore, kept up, as the 

 more frequented trails are, we finally found ourselves on the North 

 Rim. The transition from the South Rim, with its great aridity and 

 its semi-desert vegetation, which conditions also obtain down in the 

 Canyon itself, was most striking, for here we found ourselves in a 

 deep forest, floored with a rank vegetation of tall brackens and other 

 plants, bespeaking a humid region. To this humidity we were soon 

 to be introduced. It rained much of the time during the several days 

 that we were on the North Rim. 



We visited such picturesque points as Cape Royal and Cape Final, 

 from which superb views of the Grand Canyon and of the Painted 

 Desert beyond, are always visible, and finally we arrived on Bright 

 Angel Point, the highest point on this particular section of the North 

 Rim. 



Bright Angel Point, juts far out into the Canyon. Its extremity 

 is occupied by a small pinnacle perhaps thirty or forty feet higher than 

 the remainder of the Point. Upon the top of this rock is located a 



*^West, George A., "Cliff Dwellings and Pueblos in the Grand Canyon, Arizona," pp. 74 — 97. 



