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more! no see um squaw any more! no see um papoose any 
more! ” and thus begins and ends the only history of native 
navigation on this upper river I ever heard of. 
After considerable hard work the party reached a particularly 
sharp, though not very high, fall, announced before arrival by 
Red Canyon—Green River. Upper Portion. Looking up Stream. 
Photograph by E. O. Beaman. U. S. Colo. Riv. Exp. 
a loud and angry roar. Here a portage was deemed wise, and 
the goods were carried up over the huge broken rocks and so 
on down to a point well below the foot of the drop, where the 
cargoes were again restored to the boats, which meanwhile had 
been lowered by lines. It was here that the name of Ashley 
and a year date were found inscribed on a rock. Of this I 
