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abundance of warm clothing for winter, plenty of ammunition, 
two or three dozen traps, tools of various kinds, nails, screws, 
etc. In the line of scientific instruments there were two sex¬ 
tants, four chronometers, a number of barometers, thermome¬ 
ters, compasses, etc. With the exception of the Emma Dean, 
which had on board only instruments and clothing, the boats 
were loaded in such a way that if one should be lost the ex¬ 
pedition would still possess a variety of articles and food. 
The first day they met with the usual number of minor ac¬ 
cidents, such as a starting expedition of this kind is seldom 
Green River above Flaming Gorge. 
Photograph by E. O. Beaman. U. S. Colo. Riv. Exp. 
tree from, like breaking an oar, running on a shoal, and so on, 
but all went very well, and when the evening came an early 
camp was made, and Powell climbed up and away from the river 
to survey the situation. 
“ Standing on a high point,” he says, ” I can look off in every 
direction over a vast landscape with salient rocks and cliffs glitter¬ 
ing in the evening sun. Dark shadows are settling in the valleys 
and gulches, and the heights are made higher, and the depths deeper 
by the glamour and witchery of light and shade. Away to the south, 
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