It's about twenty-five miles up an' down.

He don't touch the mount'ins west of this valley nor the mount'ins east of the other valleys an' he's dead certain to keep on makin' circles so long as we're after him.

He's hikin' southward now on the other side of the range.
"We'll lay here for a few days an' not move.

Then we'll start Metoosin through the valley over there with the dogs, if there's any left, and we'll start south through this valley at the same time.

One of us will keep to the slopes an' the other to the bottom, an' we'll travel slow.