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On the 24th of May, 1869, the expedition, in three boats, left Green 
River Station on the Union Pacific Railroad, and after floating down the 
river, shooting rapids, letting their boats down over falls, often upsetting, 
losing one boat and many provisions and instruments, haunted day after 
day with the sense of worse dangers ahead than those already overcome, 
and near the close, just as they had escaped the greatest peril of all, left 
apparently to their fate by three of the party, who escaped the dangers 
ot the cañon only to be murdered by the Indians, they emerged on the 
29th of August from the Grand Cafion of the Colorado, and the next 
day reached the Mormon settlements at the mouth of the Virgin River. 
