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sent, and, having preserved none of the meat, the party began 
to suffer for food. They were six days without eating, and, the 
high precipitous walls running ever on and on, they became 
disheartened, or, in Western phrase, “demoralised,” and pro¬ 
posed to cast lots to find which should make food for the 
Red Canyon at Low Water. 
Length 25 miles. Walls 1800 to 2500 feet high. Average width of river, 250 feet. 
others, a proposition which horrified Ashley, and he begged 
them to hold out longer, assuring them that the walls must 
soon break and enable them to escape. They had not ex¬ 
pected so long a gorge. Red Canyon is twenty-five miles and, 
with the three above, the unbroken canyon is about thirty-five 
