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Boat is Recovered and Men Resume Journey. Thursday morning, as
Boucher came down his trail to go to work, he found the two men, who
had climbed down beside the rapids at daybreak, engaged in hauling
the badly battered boat out of the water. They had found it being swep
round and round in a big eddy at the foot of the cataract. Two holes
in the boat's bottom amidships bore witness to its trip over the
rocks. The men persuaded Boucher to go to the blacksmith shop at El
Tovar, and secure the necessary material for repairs. He did so, and
after everything was again on good order, the intrepid fellows pushed
off again, and continued their wild and exciting ride down to
tidewater. Past Bass's Trail and under his cable crossing, past the
mouth of Havasu Creek, and Diamond Creek, where over forty years
before, Wheeler's party had camped; down the gorge up which Wheeler
had climbed with incredible labor, they finally reached the Grand
Wash, and entered the placid water below Black and Diamond Canyons,
soon to find themselves at the town of Needles, where they were
welcomed by the cheers of practically the whole community. A banquet
was tendered them, and the one remaining boat of the expedition
secured as a memorial of their adventurous trip.
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