Then we let down by line another half-mile, and ran half a mile more in easy water to the head of a very bad place, one of the worst we had seen, where we made another let-down.

There was never any difficulty about landing when we desired, which made the work comparatively easy.

The _Canonita_ got some hard knocks and had to be repaired at one place before we could go on.

The total distance made was only about three miles, but we could have gone farther had we not stopped for investigations, and to mend the boat.
[Illustration: Split Mountain Canyon.
Photograph by E.O.Beaman, 1871] Wet and weary we welcomed the order to camp, about five o'clock, and made ourselves comfortable with dry clothes from our rubber bags, the wet ones being spread, as was our custom, on rocks to dry.

At high water many of these rapids would be rendered much easier.