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<br />o <br />C') <br />CD <br />o-j <br /> <br />12 <br /> <br />GUXX1SOI\T H.IVfi;lt DIVr:nSlON PROJECT <br /> <br />Here they were met by <br />Dillon, who brought ad- <br />ditional provisions and a <br />new pair of shoes for <br />Torrence, whose old ones <br />had completely worn out. <br />The men had a good <br />meal that night, then <br />were up the next morn- <br />ing and on their way <br />downstream to Beaver <br />Camp, about half a mile <br />above the N a r row s , <br />where they camped over- <br />night. Next day near the <br />N arrows they came upon <br />a cache of fruit left the <br />previous summer: "We <br />opened cans enough to <br />satisfy our hunger and <br />went on.""" <br /> <br />Where the first expedition had given up at the Falls of <br />Sorrow, Torrence and Fellows jumped into the swirling waters, <br />shouting "Goodbye" to each other, and went over the falls, <br />both coming out alive but exhausted on a projecting rock in <br />the calmer waters below. They lay there for hours, recovering <br />their strength and senses, <br /> <br />Next came the run through the Narrows, described by <br />Torrence in the Montrose Enterprise:::7 <br /> <br />At the "Narrows" the fun began. The Canon is full of great <br />boulders, which form bridges across the stream. Over these we must <br />scramble, one getting on top and pulling the other up. These rocks <br />were slick as grease, and hard to climb, We spent a day in going a <br />quarter of a mile. The walls are almost perpendicular in many places <br /><.nd seme 2,000 feet or more to the top. <br /> <br />They finally reached Hed. Hock Canyon, on Monday evening, <br />August 19, where they re3ted and received more food supplies, <br />On Tuesday, over a week after they had gone into the canyon, <br />they left Hed Hock for the last leg of their journey, with nothing <br />but a lunch in waterproof wrappings. The canyon walls were <br />not as high here, but the river completely filled the bottom <br />of the gorge, and the men had to swim most of the way. This <br />delayed their trip, and they weren't able to get more food <br />until nine o'clock the next day. At that time they came upon <br />the camp of some hay makers who gave them a feast of cold <br />oatmeal and pie. They were able to hire someone there to <br /> <br /> <br />FELLOWS SWIMMING DOWNS'l'HII:AlII <br />WITH IlJTBBEIl ~lATTRl"SS <br /> <br />:11; .lloutro8(' ";ntC1'j)risc~ August 29. HlOl. <br />37 [Vir/' <br />