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The Colorado River 
with lightened hearts, knowing that our sadly depleted and 
half-ruined stock of rations would soon be replenished, and 
that mail from the world would be delivered by the pack-train 
we expected to find there. Late in the afternoon we arrived 
Mouth of Kanab Canyon. 
Abandoned boats of the U. S. Colo. Riv. Exp., 1872. 
The Colorado flows just beyond the points on the left and right. 
Photograph by J. K. Hillers, U. S. Colo. Riv. Exp. 
at the narrow cleft, and our men, who had waited long, 
were overjoyed to greet us once more, for, as we were several 
days overdue, they had been filled with forebodings, and had 
made up their minds they would never see us again. 
