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The Brown Party 
The boats were so frail that the journey by rail, some ten 
days, had opened their sides in a number of places, and they 
had to be immediately recalked. The bottoms were covered 
with copper. The party consisted of the following persons: 
Frank M. Brown, president; Robert Brewster Stanton, chief 
engineer; John Hislop, first assistant engineer; C. W. Potter, 
T. P. Rigney, E. 
A. Reynolds, J. 
H. Hughes,W. H. 
Bush, Edward 
Coe, Edward 
-, Peter Hans- 
borough, Henry 
Richards, G. W. 
Gibson, Charles 
Potter, F. A.Nims, 
photo grapher, 
and J. C. Terry. 
The baggage of 
each man was limi¬ 
ted to twenty-five 
pounds. The car¬ 
goes were packed 
in air-tight zinc 
boxes three feet 
long, with one of 
which each boat 
was provided, but 
these were found 
to be cumbersome 
and heavy, the 
boats being down to within one inch of the gunwales in the 
water, so they were taken out and all lashed together, form¬ 
ing a sort of raft. This carried about one-third of all the 
supplies, and all the extra oars and rope, a most unwise 
arrangement from every point of view. The nondescript craft 
hampered their movements, could not be controlled, and if once 
it got loose everything was sure to be lost. It would have 
A Cave-Lake in a Sandstone Cliff near Kanab, S. Utah. 
The depth from front to rear is about 125 feet. The outer 
opening is the whole front of the arch. It belongs to the 
class of natural arches, alcoves, bridges, “holes in the 
wall,” etc., common in this kind of sandstone 
throughout the Southwest. 
Photograph by J. K. Hillers, U. S. Colo. Riv. Exp. 
