Come on, let us get beyond range.

We don't want to lose any more." When they got two or three hundred yards further the three men ran up.
"One pony has gone, I see," Dave said.
"Yes; it is the gray.

He had only seventy pounds, you know, so if one was to go it were best it should be him." "Well, let us mount and be off, lads; like enough those Indians will have to ride forty or fifty miles to get round this canyon, and come here, but, anyhow, we may as well push on.

It is lucky the horses have done well the last day or two, and that we have got our water-skins full.".