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first navigators of this part of the river since Alargon, 287 years 
before. That night they set forty traps and were rewarded 
with thirty-six beaver. Such good luck decided them to travel 
slowly with the current, about four miles an hour, “and trap 
the river clear.” The stream was about two hundred to three 
hundred yards wide, with bottoms extending back from six to 
The “ Navajo Church,” a Freak of Erosion near Ft. Wingate, N. M. 
The Basin of the Colorado is full of such architectural forms. See 
Dellenbaugh Butte, p. 269, Gunnison Butte, p. 271. 
“ Hole in the Wall,” p. 41, etc. 
Photograph by Ben Wittick. 
ten miles, giving good camp-grounds all along. With abund¬ 
ance of fat beaver meat and so many pelts added to their store 
they forgot their misfortunes and began to count on reaching 
the Spanish settlements they thought existed near the mouth 
of the river. Sometimes their traps yielded as many as 
