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<br />the men below. Excitedly the voyagers looked up and waved, <br />then collapsed on the shore for half-an-hour, glancing up occa- <br />sionally and waving at their well-wishers. <br />About four weeks from the date when they first entered <br />the canyon, the men gave up the venture. They had come only <br />some fifteen miles, the last tour in five days, had been without <br />adequate provisions, <br />and now the men <br />w ere confronted <br />with what appeared <br />to be an impassable <br />cas cad e blocking <br />their passage. The <br />canyon had nar- <br />rowed to about thir- <br />ty feet, the chasm <br />walls rose perpen- <br />dicular ly 2,000 feet <br />overhead, and the <br />LPlA VI:>:G TI-Ig LAST BOAT river was cascading <br />over falls after falls. <br />Anderson and Hovey tried to go downstream a ways to survey, <br />but their boat nearly swamped and they narrowly missed being <br />propelled over a cascade. To proceed farther, the men all <br />agreed. would result in almost instant death, Disheartened, <br />Torrence wrote in his notebook "With our present equipment <br />we can go no farther. The Black Canon is not impenetrable. <br />If I get out of this scrape alive, I shall come back."'" <br /> <br />Scouting around, Torrence located a steep ravine which <br />seemed to give access to the north rim in the vicinity of the <br />present Narrows. The men rested, and that evening they ate <br />up the remain- <br />ing food. Next <br />m 0 r n i n g at <br />eight they left <br />the "Falls of <br />So r row," as <br />they named the <br />rocky cascade <br />upstream from <br />the Narrows <br />(now k now n <br />as Tor r e n c e <br />Fall s ) , and <br />started the long <br />TOP OF FALL8 01<' sonnow scramble up- <br /> <br />CD <br />00 <br />CD <br />.-j <br /> <br />s <br /> <br />(j-UNNISON HTVFin. DIVE.HSION Pn.OJEC'l~ <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />~:: Holl{er and YVilley, oJ). cit.) 513. <br />