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Show . if · w_. _ . • •• -4- And so, tired and hot, bnck to the boats, and on down the River to our l ast camp, which was in Outlaw's Cave. -- ~/el~ I!<1med, for there a man could hide out for <? n iJldcfinite per~od,~nv~s~ble from l<:md or air with water and fish .abundant. The c[;.ve 1s inEcc essible except by ~ <>f the Ujv.~,~H'ld .would give ample protection fr om the weather. The.re ig ev.:.eo a nat-u:r.::-.~ chi}llllP'Y. which would drD.W off t he smoke of .one LS rue. . The l ast d~ we might have just idled down t he stream to Le e 's Ferry, but Norm::m lightened it up by having us dislodge D. huge cottonwood trunk that ... ) had caught u~j on a rock : on t his f loating rL log he danced, stood on his head and other- ----t.....:. __~ . . --..l;_-_-.. ... .- .. wise c avorted to the amusem8I!t of ~he whole - .... -- - -- party. At Lee's Ferry Dor~s Ne v~lls Lnd her daughter Joan wer e waiting for us--the first human beings, a s ide from the members of our purty, tha t we had seen since leaving Mexican Hat, 1 91 miles away, a week befor e . A truck and trailer were not far away; we dr&gged the boats over the sand and loaded them on the trailer, and our duffle on the truck, and set out for Marble Canyon Lodge, some five miles a~ay, here after a real steak dinner we spent the night -- or I should s ay we spent pari of the night, for by 4 a .m. we were on our way. The road runs sou heast to Tut City, then northeast through Kay-ente. and to Mexican Hat -- sixteen hours by the clock. This br1e~ sketch of the trip is most inadequate; yet in a dozen pages I could not give you any concwption of the const[,ntly varying beauty of sky <lnd river ;. ~nd cnnyon walls often towering to ['~ mc.ssive height of a thousand fe et or more right f rom the River's brink; the many meanders, the ever-changing colou~s,lights and shadows; the charm of conversing with intelligent ' people of almost infinitely vary jed backgrounds, speciG.lties [end inter ests ; not to mention the thrill of running a course that hc.s pr obr.cbly not been trL;vers ed by more than two score pc.rties of human beings since the beginning of time. " ~ .- . .... .. .... . -----.' _ ........ ""--_ . __.. . - . ... -, ' - , ...• ------_ .. ( / / .I .' .. ' ,/ " I " I ..- '/ ! i " / ! |