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Show 3535 1557 46 Dellenbaugh- D far as Grand island; that is the limit, generally, of boating the Niagara; it was very swift; coming back from Grand island we always had to keep very close to the Canadian shore, so close that the cars would touch the shore, in order to avoid the swift current in the center of the river. Then, when we got about half a mile above where we wanted to go on the American side, which was at Blackrock, there was an island there, we would drop across as rapidly as possible and get in behind the island. Also I had experience on the lake; the end of the lake there where the river goes out is quite swift. Q At the conclusion of these trips to the western country did you engage in any stufy of the Colorado river and the people around it? A Well, I have always studied that region more or less from the time I first was out there. Q What particular study did you make of the Indians in that sec-tion of the country? A I went down and lived with the Hopis for five weeks, and had some of them at Keen canyon; also the Navajos and the Indians around Kanab and around Trumble; I met one party out about the Shewits country in 1875. Q Did you make any investigation of the Utes? A More of the Piutes; not much of the Utes. I embodied that in my book, " North Americans of Yesterday," which is a resume of |
