356 The Colorado River 
Stanton and Nims were making notes and photographs, the 
men were to finish up the lower end of the second of two very 
bad rapids where portages were made. Stanton’s boat, con¬ 
taining Hansborough and Richards, was following the first boat, 
which had made the stretch with difficulty because the current 
set against the left-hand cliff. The second boat was driven 
against the foot of this wall under an overhanging shelf, and in 
the attempt to push her off she was capsized and Hansborough 
never rose again. Richards, who was a strong swimmer, made 
some distance down-stream, but before the first boat could 
reach him he sank, and that was the end for him. This terrible 
disaster, added to the death of Brown, and the foolhardiness 
Looking West from Jacob’s Pool on Road to Lee’s Ferry. Vermilion Cliffs in Distance. 
The “Jacob” after whom the pool was named was Jacob Hamblin. 
This is the country Stanton was in after leaving the river. 
Photograph by W. Bell. 
