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are now only three left of the original Powell [parlies], and these three all of the second party: Mr. [Hillers]who lives in Washington; Mr. Bishop - (he went with us as far as the first year carried us - to the mouth of the [Paica] river) - who now lives in Salt Lake and is a good Mormon; and myself.

  I hope we make the trip to the Canyon next Spring which will be first fifty years since we had that last [heatfast] at [your] house and shoved off with the waters of [Feau Riva].