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wonders of the Grand Cañon but as a financial operation the results do not appear to have been satisfactory. 
The second party reached the river at the point near the present site of Yuma City, opposite Fort Yuma.
The third took a middle course and striking the edge of the Colorado basin entered the valley by following the base of the mountain range at what is now known as Mohave Cañon, or the Needles, almost on the line of the 35th parallel.
In his official report the officer in command of the party stated, that oppressed with fatigue and goaded by hunger and thirst, after many days of toil, danger and suffering, they came upon a large and powerful tribe of Indians living upon the banks of a great river, the men and women of splendid "physique", being nearly eight (8) feet in height, calling themselves "Mojaves" and with whom, being treated with great hospitality and reverence, they remained long enough to recuperate and then descended the left bank of the river uniting with the other section of the expedition near the present boundary between the United States and Mexico. 
The story of these parties can hardly be paralleled in the annals of suffering and peril but there is nothing to show that they returned to their starting point any richer in this world's goods than when they started from it. 
We have thus far, by direct official evidence, traced the Mohaves for 356 years upon the same ground where they still live and have their [[living?? being???]]. 
And yet how few traces of their passage have those who have gone before left behind them! Their footprints upon the sands of time have been as evanescent as those traced by their descendants at the present day upon the shifting sands of the Colorado deserts!
So far, of the many theories advanced in regard to the origin of the Indians, that of Asiatic descent is the most generally accepted and as it is not the