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A Canyon Voyage

CHAPTER IV
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They were doubtless from the _No-Name_.
[Illustration: F.S.

Dellenbaugh The Heart of Lodore.
Photograph by E.O.Beaman, 1871.] After dinner we once more unloaded the boats and carried everything on our backs up and across a long rocky hill, or point, down to a spot, about a third of a mile altogether, where the goods were piled on a smooth little beach at the margin of a quiet bay.

It took many trips, and it was exhausting work, but in addition to bringing the cargoes down, we also by half past five got one of the boats there, by working it over the rocks and along the edge.

Here we camped and had supper as soon as Andy could get it ready.

It may be asked by some not familiar with scientific work, how we always knew the time, but as we had the necessary instruments for taking time astronomically, there was nothing difficult about it.


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