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The Rubicon had been passed. A landing was at once 
made and for two days every signal that could be made 
was made in hope that the third boat would come on. 
But they waited in vain. The feeling engendered had 
become so bitter that although the Howland boys and 
Bell could see that the other boats had gone safely 
through, yet they were too sore to go on, and sorrowfully 
the Major and his party proceeded. Nothing of any 
moment occurred until at the end of Black Canyon below 
the Rio Virgin, the hazardous trip ended and the party 
broke up. The Major with his valuable records returned 
by way of St. George, Utah, in the hope of hearing of his 
other men, but no word of any kind had been heard. 
After waiting several days at St. George, no message of 
any kind coming of or from them, with a heavy heart he 
came on to Salt Lake and from here to Washington to 
report. 
In 1870, the Major learned that the Schevwitz Indians 
living on the plateau, near where the men separated had 
one or two watches and guns, that from all accounts 
belonged to the missing men. Ever anxious to learn 
of their fate he decided to come to Utah at once, and 
selecting Walter H. Graves and myself from Bloomington, 
Ill., came to Salt Lake by rail and from here in wagons 
and on horseback we went to Pipe Springs, Arizona, and 
from there with Jacob Hamlin and Ashton Nebeker as 
guides and interpreters, we went to the southern slope of 
the West Side Mountain of Lieut. Ive’s survey, now cal- 
led Mt. Trumbull, and from there sent a runner to the 
Schevwitz village about 30 miles away, inviting the chiefs 
to come in and have a council and smoke the pipe of 
peace. Two days later the chief men of the village, 
eleven of them, came and after an all-night parley, this 
was what Powell learned—That his men had succeeded 
in finding a way out of the canyon and in a famished con- 
dition, without water, they reached the Indian Village. 
Unfortunately for them, a day or two before a renegade 
Indian called ‘Pete’, from Colorado, had reached this 
same village. As he could talk a little English, the men 
told their story and their desire to reach St. George, the 
Mormon settiement, about 75 miles distance. However, 
improbable as their story of coming down the river in 
