BEEHIVE POINT. 15 
Kingfisher Creek, Kingfisher Park, and Kingfisher Canon. At night, we camp 
at the foot of this canon. 
Our general course this day has been south, but here the river turns to 
the east around a point which is rounded to the shape of a dome, and on its 
sides little cells have been carve^l by the action of the water; and in these 
pits, which cover the face of the dome, hundreds of swallows have built their 
nests. As they flit about the cliffs, they look like swarms of bees, giving to 
the whole the appearance of a colossal beehive of the old time form, and 
so we name it Beehive Point. 
The opposite wall is a vast amphitheater, rising in a succession of ter 
races to a height of 1,200 or 1,500 feet. Each step is built of red sandstone, 
with a face of naked, red rock, and a glacis clothed with verdure. So the am 
phitheater seems banded red and green, and the evening sun is playing with 
roseate flashes on the rocks, with shimmering green on the cedars' spray, and 
iridescent gleams on the dancing waves. The landscape revels in the sunshine. 
May 31. We start down another canon, and reach rapids made danger 
ous by high rocks lying in the channel; so we run ashore, and let our boats 
down with lines. In the afternoon we come to more dangerous rapids, and 
stop to examine them. I find we must do the same work again, but, being 
on the wrong side of the river to obtain a foothold, must first cross over no 
very easy matter in such a current, with rapids and rocks below. We take 
the pioneer boat "Emma Dean" over, and unload her on the bank; then she 
returns and takes another load. Running back and forth, she soon has half 
our cargo over; then one of the larger boats is manned and taken across, but 
earned down almost to the rocks in spite of hard rowing. The other boats 
follow and make the landing, and we go into camp for the night. 
At the foot of the cliff on this side, there is a long slope covered with 
pines ; under these we make our beds, and soon after sunset are seeking rest 
and sleep. The cliffs on either side are of red sandstone, and stretch up 
toward the heavens 2,500 feet. On this side, the long, pine clad slope is 
surmounted by perpendicular cliffs, with pines on their summits. The wall 
on the other side is bare rock from the water's edge up 2,000 feet, then 
slopes back, giving footing to pines and cedars. 
As the twilight deepens, the rocks grow dark and somber ; the threat- 
