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The Colorado River 
hundred pounds of the precious freight and threw this away, a 
foolish proceeding, for by proper cooking it might have been 
utilised for food. Together with the losses by the wreck of 
the No-Name and other mishaps, and with what had been con¬ 
sumed, their food-supply was now reduced from the original 
Junction of the Grand and Green, 
On the surface; bare rock. Photograph by E. O. Beaman, 
U. S. Colo. Riv. Exp. 
ten-months’ amount to a two-months’ quantity, though they 
had not yet been on the way quite sixty days; that is, they 
had used up eight months’ supplies in two months, includ¬ 
ing a mountain sheep and a deer the hunters had brought 
down, and they were barely more than half-way to the end of 
the journey. At this alarming rate they would be starving 
