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canteens, they were shot down from ambush. In consequence 
I have called this the Ambush Water-pocket, The guns, 
clothing, etc., were appropriated by the Shewits, and I believe 
it was through one of the watches that the facts first leaked 
out, I have always had a lurking suspicion that the Shewits 
were glad of an excuse (if they had one at the time) for killing 
the men. When I was there they were in an ugly mood and 
the night before I got to the camp my guide, a Uinkaret, and 
a good fellow, warned me to be constantly on my guard or 
they would steal all we had. There were three of us, and 
probably we were among the first whites to go there, Powell 
the autumn after the men were killed went to the Uinkaret 
Mountains, but did not continue over to the Shewits Plateau. 
Thompson went there in 1872. 
Meanwhile the boat party dashed safely on through a suc¬ 
cession of rapids till noon, when they arrived at another very 
bad place. In working through this by means of lines, Brad¬ 
ley was let down in one of the boats to fend her off the rocks, 
and finding himself in a serious predicament started to cut the 
line, when the stem of the boat pulled away and he shot down 
alone. He was a powerful man, and snatching up the steer¬ 
ing oar, with several strong strokes he put her head down 
stream and immediately boat and all disappeared amidst the 
foaming breakers. But he came out unharmed, and in time to 
render service to Powell’s boat, which was badly shaken up in 
the passage. The other men of Bradley’s boat, left behind, 
were obliged to make a long and difficult climb before they 
were able to rejoin their craft. By night they had run entirely 
out of the granite, and at noon the next day, without encoun¬ 
tering any more serious trouble, they emerged at last from the 
depths of the giant chasm. They were at the mouth of the 
Grand Wash. The Dragon of Waters was vanquished. Not 
that the Dragon would not fight again just as before, but 
those who attacked him in future would understand his temper. 
Below this point Powell was guided by a manuscript jour¬ 
nal which Jacob Hamblin and two other Mormons, Miller and 
Crosby, had kept on a boat journey a few years earlier from 
the Grand Wash to Callville, Ives and others having been up 
