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began, but it was not one with difficult waters, and, being only 
nine miles in length, we were soon through it. At its foot was 
the mouth of the Dirty Devil and the beginning of Mound 
Canyon, which was later combined with Monument under 
the name of Glen. 
Our rations were now very low. For some time, each man 
had been allowed for a meal, only a thin slice of bacon, a chunk 
of bread about the size of one’s fist, and all the coffee he de¬ 
sired. At long intervals a pot of Andy’s rare bean-soup was 
added to the feast. It was necessary, therefore, to push on 
with all haste, or we would be starving. The Canonita was 
consequently taken out and “cached ” under a huge rock which 
had fallen against the cliff, forming a natural house. Filling 
her with sand to keep her from “drying ’’ to pieces we left her, 
feeling sure the party which was to come after her the next 
spring would find her safe. She was forty feet above low 
water. We now went ahead with good speed, leaving as much 
work as possible for the prospective Cafionita party to perform. 
All through Glen Canyon we found evidences of Puebloan oc¬ 
cupation : house ruins, storage caves, etc. The river was tame, 
though the walls, about one thousand to sixteen hundred feet 
high, were beautiful, and often, in places, vertical. The low 
stage of water rendered progress somewhat difficult at times, but 
nevertheless we made fairly good time and on the 5th of Oc¬ 
tober passed the San Juan, a shallow stream at this season, 
entering through a wide canyon of about the same depth as 
that of the Colorado, that is, about twelve hundred or fourteen 
hundred feet. A short distance below it we stopped at the 
Music Temple, where the Howlands and Dunn had carved their 
names. Reaching the vicinity of Navajo Mountain, Powell 
thought of climbing it, but an inquiry as to the state of the 
larder received from Andy the unpleasant information that we 
were down to the last of the supplies; two or three more scant 
meals would exhaust everything edible in the boats. So no halt 
was made. On the contrary, the oars were plied more vigor¬ 
ously, and on the 6th we saw a burned spot in the bushes on the 
right,—there were alluvial bottoms in the bends,—and though 
this burned spot was not food, it was an indication that there 
