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Show 5478 went around this bend, and could hear a rapid or rough water perhaps a mile and half below our camp, and went back across the hill to camp. And of course all of our supplies and all of our equipment was on the big boat, and we felt pretty blue over the loss of it, expecting never to see it again. And we de-cided we would wait until morning, and then decide on what we would do, whether to go on the Lees Ferry or go back and try to get some supplies at the Escalante. The next morning, by some intervention of Providence, when I went down to take a view of the river while the boys were getting the camp ready, I discovered a cache of flour that had been placed on a platform in the little oak tree in the bottom. One end of it had been loosened and blown down. I discovered this by noticing a trail going through the willows at the edge of this bar. And I followed the trail, and found a little hut out there, and this mass of flour; it was partly uncovered; I look the canvas off, and there were seven fifty- pound sacks of flour on this platform set down to the ground. |
