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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 four in five days, had been without
<br />adequate provisions,
<br />and now the men
<br />w ere confran ted
<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 />dicularly 2,000 feet
<br />overhead, and the
<br />river \vas 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.'",
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<br />Scouting around. Torrence located a steep ravine \\'hich
<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 />mar n i n g at
<br />eight they left
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<br />Sorrow," as
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<br />the Narrows
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