As to Translations 
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it is quite another matter as a name. Nor do I approve of 
hyphenating native words, as is so frequently done. It is no 
easier to understand Mis-sis-sip~pi than Mississippi. My 
thanks are due to Mr. Thomas Moran, the distinguished 
painter, for the admirable sketch from nature he has so kindly 
permitted a reproduction of for a frontispiece. Mr. Moran 
has been identified as a painter of the Grand Canyon ever since 
1873, when he went there with one of Powell’s parties and 
made sketches from the end of the Kaibab Plateau which after¬ 
wards resulted in the splendid picture of the Grand Canyon 
now owned by the Government. 
I am indebted to Prof. A. H. Thompson for the use of 
his river diary as a check upon my own, and also for many 
photographs now difficult to obtain; and to Dr. G. K. Gilbert, 
Mr. E. E. Howell, Dr. T. Mitchell Prudden, and Mr. Delaney 
Gill for the use of special photographs. Other debts in this 
line I acknowledge in each instance and hence will not repeat 
here. I had hoped to have an opportunity of again reading 
over the diary which “Jack ’’ Sumner kept on the first Powell 
expedition, and which I have not seen since the time of the 
second expedition, but the serious illness of Major Powell 
prevented my requesting the use of it. 
F. S. Dellenbaugh. 
New York, October, 1902, 
