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The Colorado River 
could sail with impunity. Then we landed on a rocky point at 
the head of the first bad plunge, the beginning of Disaster 
Falls, where the No-Naine was wrecked two years before. At 
this place we camped for tlie night. The descent altogether 
The Canyon of Lodore. Looking across a Rapid. 
Photograph by E. O. Beaman, U. S. Colo. Riv. Exp. 
here is about fifty feet. In the morning all the cargoes were 
taken over the rocks to the foot of the first fall, and the boats 
were cautiously worked down along the edge, to where the 
cargoes were, where they were reloaded and lowered to the 
head of the next descent, several hundred yards. Here 
