Samuel Franklin Emmons 



port a camping party. Everything 

 had to be specially created for the 

 purpose, and, after the party had 

 reached California over the Panama 

 route, it took three months to pre- 

 pare the necessary camp outfit and 

 to carry them to their field of work. 

 Even after this work was well under 

 way there were times when it seemed 

 that obstacles ahead were almost too 

 great to be overcome, but King's 

 energy and resourcefulness were 

 equal to every emergency, and he 

 soon succeeded in inspiring all the 

 members of his party with such 

 confidence in his leadership and in 

 imparting to them such measure of 

 his own enthusiasm that they never 

 faltered in their devotion to the 

 work, even though the three years 

 originally planned were subsequently 

 extended, by the unsolicited action of 

 Congress, to seven. 



In recognition of the legitimacy of 

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