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on. They gave me some information as to how 
I was to get there, and furnished me with a 
map of the Colorado River, or rather a sectional 
map of Arizona, that was supposed to show every 
turn in the river, and I found it good company 
during my trip. 
Next morning I started for the Needles and 
was much interested in the—to me—strange 
sights. I had a good look at the ostriches and 
the orange orchards, but after we had passed 
through San Bernardino there was a great 
change from fertile valleys to a desert. After 
we had crossed the Cajon Pass the great cactus 
put in their appearance, and stretched away as 
far as the eye could see. 
AET E. M. we reached The Needles, and next 
morning I took a stroll to see the river I had 
thought of so often and found the muddiest 
stream on earth, | think. I had been building 
air castles about the roaring torrent that was 
considered so dangerous, and after all it was 
about the most insignificant stream to be hon- 
ored with the name of river I had ever seen. 
The Platte is a duplicate of it, and while stand- 
ing there, looking at the many sandbars, I could 
imagine I was standing on the banks of the 
Platte and watching the buffalo crossing, some 
swimming, others on a sandbar, and still others 
in water not more than two inches deep. 
I was awakened from my reverie by a man 
who asked, “Well, what do you think of it?” 
I told him that it reminded me of the Platte 
near Julesburg. Yes, he said, it did, but he 
thought there was more water here, for near 
shore the water was about fifteen feet deep, 
while not more than two hundred feet out we 
could see the sandbar. I asked him about the 
trip down the river, and he said he had often 
made the trip, but always got the Indians to 
take him, betause they have been raised on the 
river here and they understand it better than 
strangers. The most dangerous place was, he 
said, between there and Melen, thirteen 
miles below. With my glasses I could see sev- 
eral miles down the river, and all the danger 
I could see was that a man might have to do 
a lot of wading, and there was certainly not 
much danger attached to that. 
I went to a lumber yard where Mr. Trasker 
told me they would build me a boat for a rea- 
sonable price, but could not do it for four days, 


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