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A Land Expedition 
steamer might ascend, light, through Black Canyon, but he 
considered it impracticable. Running now down-stream in 
the Explorer, the expected pack-train was encountered at the 
foot of Pyramid Canyon, and a welcome addition was made to 
the supplies. 
The steamboat was now sent back to the fort and Ives pre¬ 
pared for a land journey, which led him eastward over much 
The Canyon of Diamond Creek. 
Photograph by W. H. Jackson. 
the same route that Garces had traversed so long ago on his 
march to Oraibi. Ireteba was his guide. They went to the 
mouth of Diamond Creek, where they had their first view of 
the Grand Canyon, or Big Canyon, as they called it, of which 
Ireteba had before given them some description. The illus¬ 
trations given in Ives’s report of both Black and Grand Can¬ 
yons are a libel on these magnificent wonder-places, and in no 
way compare with the lieutenant’s admirable pen-pictures. 
Crossing the Colorado Plateau (which another explorer ten or 
