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(31)  Monday morning  [[underline]]Nov 3rd 1879.[[/underline]]
Like some of the folks of old I worked all day Sunday and will keep another day. Our provisions are nearly out & after today will live on bread & a slice of bacon per day until we reach Kanab. Under the circumstances working on Sunday was necessary if the work was done at all. There remained one hard, dangerous climb to measure a section of limestone that hitherto had been guessed at as it was nearly inaccessible. Jerry accompanied me & we chose a cliff about two miles
above camp as looking the most favorable. On the start there was a bad place but then better
for 200 feet up. The struggle commenced here - a reentering angle of the cliff gave a little hold & up nearly a perpendicular wall clinging to points jutting out