We had reached the Canon on the second level or edge of the great gulf. Above and around us rose a wall of 2000 feet and below us a vast chasm 2500 feet in perpendicular depth and 1/2 a mile wide.
Thomas Moran
During the night I was awakened by a wolf crunching the bones of a rabbit we had eaten. He was not more than 12 feet from where we were lying, and it being moonlight, I saw him clearly.
lying night bones wolf moonlight
Getting tired of back and bread which is pretty much all we have to eat.
bread eat tired pretty
About noon we made another water pocket in the lava rocks about a mile from the Grand Chasm.
water made
The color of the Great Canon itself is red, a light Indian Red, and the material sandstone and red marble and is in terraces all the way down.
light color indian great red
depth wall rose great
It has stretched resources and capacity to the limit.
limit
The success of immunization in Indonesia is crucial to prevent the outbreak's spread to other countries in Southeast Asia
success asia
The Wild Band Pocket is situated in as absolute a desert as I ever saw.
wild desert band absolute
We made several photos which will give me all the details I want if I conclude to paint the view.
photos made give details view paint
From our camp at the pocket the wall of the Grand Canon was visible some 15 miles down the valley.
wall visible
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