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122: 25: 192:." On Monday, 25 December 1906 Thomas Grindell's corpse was found and it was confirmed that he had died from dehydration. As Thomas's body was discovered, Edward could collect insurance, however, this did not occur, due to the cost of the expedition ultimately outweighing the insurance money. Valenzuela's body was never located, leaving Hoffman, as the sole confirmed survivor. 161:
guide, Dolores Valenzuela. The members of the expedition are believed to have perished from starvation and thirst based on Hoffman's report that Grindell had a single donkey carry all the water through the Sonora. When the equipment they were carrying to purify the water failed, Valenzuela split from
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natives, nonetheless, Jack Hoffman, the only American survivor, testified that they were not responsible for the expeditioners' deaths. The expedition, which expected to return by August 1905, consisted of Grindell, who was an educator and former clerk for the
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Another expedition, led by Edward P. Grindell, who was Thomas's brother and wrote a piece based on his experience, set off to find the remains of the expeditioners. Then-governor
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the group, while the four men decided to continue and sought a boat to carry them to Tiburón. Hoffman spent four months alone, travelling 150 miles from Tiburón to
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fruitlessly joined in the search, since "they had fought with Thomas Grindell with the
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expedition, led by Thomas F. Grindell, went missing in the
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