10/35 Possibly some may have been lying in the dense underbrush, but if so they kept their lairs as these bears generally do unless directly disturbed. They proceeded to the lower end of the park by boat and through the little canyon that came in there, got out to the plateau where Steward and I had before been, but there they went farther. After a very hard climb they succeeded in reaching the crest where they had a broad view and could see nearly all of the next canyon with its rapids which we would have to pass through; the canyon the Major had called Whirlpool on his first trip. They could also see the Yampa River for twenty miles and discovered the _Dean_ coming back down that stream, their attention being attracted by a gunshot in that direction, which they knew could be only from our own men. |