 | Smithsonian Institution, John Wesley Powell, Almon Harris Thompson, Elliott Coues, George Brown Goode - Canyons - 1875 - 470 pages
...or thirty feet high, and let them down again over the first fall, and now we are all ready to start. The last thing before leaving, I write a letter to...madness to set out in this place; that we can never get safely through it; and, further, that the river turns again to the south into the granite, and... | |
 | America - 1875 - 472 pages
...should he not be heard from again. The records of the expedition have been kept in duplicate. One i set of these is given to Howland, and now we are ready....madness to set out in this place; that we can never get safely through it; and, further, that the river turns again to the south into the granite, and... | |
 | George Iles - America - 1902 - 206 pages
...been kept in duplicate. One set of these is given to Howland, and now we are ready. For the last 163 time, they entreat us not to go on", and tell us that...madness to set out in this place; that we can never get safely through it; and, further, that the river turns again to the south into the granite, and... | |
 | Charles Alexander McMurry - Explorers - 1906 - 276 pages
...Rowland. The records of the expedition have been kept in duplicate. One set of these is given to Rowland, and now we are ready. For the last time they entreat us not to go, and tell us that it is madness ; that the river turns again into the granite ; that a few miles of... | |
 | John Wesley Powell - Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) - 1915 - 332 pages
...or thirty feet high, and let them down again over the first fall, and now we are all ready to start. The last thing before leaving, I write a letter to...madness to set out in this place; that we can never get safely through it ; and, further, that the river turns again to the south into the granite, and... | |
 | United States. National Park Service - Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.) - 1920 - 570 pages
...already almost accomplished it, is more than I am willing to acknowledge, and I determine to go on. * * * For the last time they entreat us not to go on, and...tell us that it is madness to set out in this place." The same appeal that Dunn made to Hawkins, the cook of the party, as Hawkins himself tells it. William... | |
 | Will Christopher Wood, Alice Cecilia Cooper, Frederick A. Rice - American literature - 1925 - 368 pages
...again. The records of the expedition have been kept in duplicate. One set of these is given to Rowland, and now we are ready. For the last time they entreat...to go on, and tell us that it is madness to set out through it; and, further, that the river turns again to the south into the granite, and a few miles... | |
 | John Wesley Powell - Travel - 1961 - 454 pages
...sister shonld he not be heard from again. The records of the expedition have been kept in dnplicate. One set of these is given to Howland ; and now we are ready. For the last time they entreat ns not to go on, and tell ns that it is maduess to set ont in this place ; that we can never get safely... | |
 | United States. National Park Service - Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.) - 1933 - 70 pages
...already almost accomplished it, is more than I am willing to acknowledge, and I determine to go on. ... For the last time they entreat us not to go on, and...tell us that it is madness to set out in this place," — the same appeal that Dunn made to Hawkins, the cook of the party, as Hawkins himself tells it.... | |
 | Helen Whybrow - History - 2003 - 588 pages
...25 or 30 feet high and let them down again over the first fall, and now we are all ready to start. The last thing before leaving, I write a letter to...madness to set out in this place; that we can never get safely through it; and, further, that the river turns again to the south into the granite, and... | |
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... ready to start. The last thing before leaving, I write a letter to my wife, and give it to Howland. Sumner gives him his watch, directing that it be sent to his sister, should he not be heard from again. The records of the expedition have been kept... 
