I had ordered, by advice in Chicago, two pairs of fine shoes at thirteen dollars a pair, but I now discovered that I ought to have bought shoes at two dollars instead for such work as this.

We hoped to be able to get some new shoes from Salt Lake when we reached the Uinta River and again would be in touch, even though a very long touch, with the outside world.

Our soap was all gone too, and supplies of every kind were getting low.
In the afternoon three more rapids were run and at a fourth we were compelled to make a line-portage.

Then we saw the strata begin to curve over and down and finally drop into the river just as they had come out of it at the beginning.

The crevices were filled with ferns and in places clear water was dripping from these little green cliff gardens.
As we ran along the foot of the left wall we saw a peculiar and beautiful spring which had carved out a dainty basin where a multitude of ferns and kindred plants were thriving, a silvery rill dropping down from them.