VI 
Powell’s Report 
perhaps for the sake of dramatic unity, concluded to omit 
mention of the personnel of the second expedition, awarding 
credit, for all that was accomplished, to the men of his first 
wonderful voyage of 1869. And these men surely deserved all 
that could be bestowed on them. They had, under the Major’s 
clear-sighted guidance and cool judgment, performed one of 
the distinguished feats of history. They had faced unknown 
dangers. They had determined that the forbidding torrent 
could be mastered. But it has always seemed to me that the 
men of the second party, who made the same journey, who 
mapped and explored the river and much of the country round¬ 
about, doing a large amount of difficult work in the scientific 
line, should have been accorded some recognition. The ab¬ 
sence of this has sometimes been embarrassing for the reason 
that when statements of members of the second party were re¬ 
ferred to the official report, their names were found missing 
from the list. This inclined to produce an unfavourable im¬ 
pression concerning these individuals. In order to provide in 
my own case against any unpleasant circumstance owing to 
this omission, I wrote to Major Powell on the subject and re¬ 
ceived the following highly satisfactory answer: 
Washington, D. C., January 18, 1888. 
My dear Dellenbaugh : 
Replying to your note of the T4th instant, it gives me great 
pleasure to state that you were a member of my second party of ex¬ 
ploration down the Colorado, during the years 1871 and 1872, that 
you occupied a place in my own boat and rendered valuable ser¬ 
vices to the expedition, and that it was with regret on my part that 
your connection with the Survey ceased. 
Yours cordially, 
J. W. Powell. 
Recently, when I informed him of my intention to publish this 
volume, he very kindly wrote as follows: 
Washington, January 6, 2902. 
Dear Dellenbaugh : 
I am pleased to hear that you are engaged in writing a book on 
the Colorado Canyon. I hope that you will put on record the second 
