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Show 639 We found out in the spring of 1872 when we went back into the region of the Dirty Devil River, that Hamblin had been on the wrong river, the Escalante River, as we named it. R. 1540. Although we already knew that Hamblin had failed to get our supplies there, as he had sent as Indian runner to the Uintah Indian Agency to tell Powell he couldn't get to the designated place, both the first and second expeditions passed the mouth of the Escalante River without discovering it. The Spanish name for the Crossing of the Fathers is " El Vado de Los Padres." R. 1540. When they got to the Crossing of the Fathers, they found Hamblin had succeeded in getting there with supplies, and had gone on to the Hopi towns across the river at that point, leaving the supplies there in charge of a couple of prospectors. " Q. Do you know how those supplies were brought in? " A. By pack mule, they only way they could be brought in." R. 1541. ( Testimony stricken out, R. Vol. 9, pp. 1541). After the expedition reached Lees Ferry the first year, they waited for a while and finally went by pack mule and horseback out to Kanab, Utah, Powell having arranged to have the horses brought down to the river [ Lees Ferry] across the Kaibab Plateau and down Houserock Valley. The guide who was bringing in these horses and supplies got lost or Paria Plateau and wandered around about ten days before he found a way to get down to where they were at Lees Ferry. He then went from Lees Ferry to |