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The Colorado River 
Bend after bend was turned and left behind, and still no Cross¬ 
ing, but late in the afternoon a shot was heard; then we saw a 
white rag on a pole; then we landed and beheld a large pile of 
Glen Canyon. 
Sandstone wall about 1200 feet high. 
Photograph by J. Fennemore, U. S. Col. Riv. Exp. 
rations, in charge of three men. These men, Dodds, Bonne- 
mort, and Riley, as we were days overdue, had about made 
up their minds we were lost, and had contemplated depart¬ 
ing in the morning and leaving the rations to their fate. 
