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Ambush Water-pocket 
once concluded that these whites were the culprits and that 
they never came down the Colorado as they claimed. In the 
morning, therefore, a number secreted themselves near the 
The Basket Maker. 
Old woman of the Kaibab Pai Utes. Behind is the typical Pai Ute dwelling of boughs 
and brush. The dwellings of the Shewits are similar. 
Photograph by J. K. Hillers, U. S. Colo. Riv. Exp. 
edge of the water-pocket. The trail to the water leads down 
under a basaltic cliff perhaps thirty or forty feet high, as I re¬ 
member the spot, which I visited about six years later. As 
the unfortunate men turned to come up from filling their 
